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The Patent Ploy
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Linux to work with Windows.
A lot of people are wondering what Microsoft is up to, what possible motivation drove this. I'd ask the same of Novell: lying down with the lion is not usually a good strategy for smaller animals.
Novell CEO Ronald Hovsepian explained that it's all about you: (
Oh, sure. I hadn't thought of that.
Quoting Bruce again:
This entire agreement hinges around software patenting - monopolies on ideas that are burying the software industry in litigation - rather than innovation. If we've learned one thing from the rapid rise of Open Source, it's that intellectual property protection - the thing that Open Source dispenses with - actually impedes innovation. And the Novell-Microsoft agremeent stands as an additional impediment.
Right. Novell is selling everyone else down the river, or at least hoping to. As Hovsepian said, it's all about you.
All about you and your money, that is.
Previous rantings in this area:
Illegal Linux
Licensed Operating Systems
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