MS and Novell: the end of a good feud

11/06/2006  
Relevance: 6.76
And so, last week, “Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. ... announced a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together. The two companies also announced an agreement to provide each other’s customers with patent coverage for their respective products. These agreements will be in place until at least 2012”. I doubt it's as simple as that.
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What Does GPL3 Mean for the Enterprise?

05/17/2007  
Relevance: 5.30
What if you cry yourself to sleep at night because you really really want to have locked hardware and discriminatory patent agreements? No problem— knock yourself out. You just can't do it with GPL code.
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Java: Money, Freedom and Open Source

09/29/2006  
Relevance: 5.25
Trademarks, licensing agreements, branding, and other fundamental product issues remains unchanged
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Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community

08/06/2007  
Relevance: 5.15
Microsoft's patent indemnity agreements with several Linux vendors are unsettling the marketplace, Ubuntu leader says.
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GPL, BSD Fight for Best Licensing Agreements

10/19/2007  
Relevance: 4.95
Having been a Linux user for a number of years, weathering immense criticism for thinking like a normal person rather than an engineer, you might think that articles like this one would have me moving in to agree with such statements. But me being me, I choose to rebel.
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Everything but the 'why'

06/10/2007  
Relevance: 4.91
In the Microsoft patent debate, one simple question -- why? -- has a variety of speculative answers. But is Redmond collecting distros to show a judge that"all these Linux companies violated our patents, and they signed agreements to prove it"?
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FSF Attorney Says Microsoft-Novell Deal Won’t Last

11/17/2006  
Relevance: 4.79
The controversy over Novell’s partnership with Redmond is nowhere near over, but the Free Software Foundation’s general counsel, Eben Moglen, says the patent provision of the companies’ agreements will be “dead” before April.
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Why Red Hat doesn't need a deal with Microsoft

06/24/2007  
Relevance: 4.73
The trade press reported a lot of rumors this past week about the chances for a patent protection pact between Red Hat and Microsoft similar to the agreements Microsoft negotiated with Novell, Xandros, and Linspire. Red Hat doesn't appear to be interested in the least. Here's why.
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Novell eyes Linux in Asia

10/19/2007  
Relevance: 4.64
Novell Suse Linux is positioning itself to be the corporate Linux of choice for today's multi-OS corporation thanks to a series of agreements with companies such as SAP and Microsoft.
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Novell Releases Microsoft Patent Agreement Documents

05/27/2007  
Relevance: 4.54
Novell has filed its delayed annual report with the SEC, which includes the technical co-operation and patent agreements it entered into with Microsoft in November 2006.
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