Novell Responds To Microsoft's IP Claims

Azul writes "Ron Hovsepian, Novell's CEO, has posted an open letter to the Community, where he explicitly states Novell's disagreement with Steve Ballmer's claims of Linux infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property. From the letter: 'We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents.'"

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:That's bullshit.

[Heir Of The Mess]

Nice level headed response. The problem is, is that the people reading and moderating this forum for discussing the Novell/MS issue are going to be a bunch tunnel visioned, embittered Linux fanbois who let their pie in the sky dreams of Linux domination cloud over their eyes so that they don't have to face up to where the world is going.

Windows is here for the future. Linux is here right now and Microsoft will service their customers with what is required. Right now Novell are joining the party. The thing is with Linux is that it's fluid enough that it's users have to be a bit more mobile with their software configurations than Windows users. This puts Linux in a vulnerable position. This probably scares some of these Linux fanbois many of which who have probably snuck in from the AmigaOS camp after that lost out to the Windows machine.

People say that Microsoft doesn't innovate, but those same people complain that they are being locked out of Microsoft technology if they don't use Microsoft products. Seems a funny argument.

And now I wait for the flames.