Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[Simon]

Oh hey, I found a lovely, very ominous snag in the wording:

"We won't assert our patents against individual, non-commercial open
source developers" who write code for SUSE Linux, Ballmer pledged.

from http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/11/02/tech-msnovell-061101.html


And, hah, I like this:

The deals will have no impact on Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.

Asked whether the outstanding conflicts addressed by the agreements
affected the lawsuit, Ballmer said, "We were able to clear up almost
everything except that one."
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