Microsoft and LG Electronics Sign Linux Covenant

rs232 wrote with a PC World link discussing another alliance between Microsoft and a vendor via Linux. The vendor this time around is electronics maker LG, and marks the fifth company to license unspecified patents relating to Linux or Linux devices from the OS giant. "'This agreement is focused only on exchange of patent rights,' said David Kaefer, general manager of IP licensing at Microsoft. 'The open-source elements of the deal do utilize a covenant model similar to the Xandros and Novell deals, but this deal is most similar to recent agreements with Samsung and Fuji Xerox.' Those deals were signed this year in April and March, respectively. Both covered general access to intellectual property contained in patent portfolios and included protection for customers using Linux-based software."

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Oh, shut the fuck up

[Anonymous Coward]

They're not the Nazis.

You cheapen the deaths of the millions murdered by the Nazis by equating, however approximately, the patent deals struck by a software company with the deportation of people to death camps.

Fuck you.

Re:I may be the only one but

[El Lobo]

And you should add: with a lot of incompatibility. Not everything is about choices. There is NOT an absolute "best" or "better". You should say that in some things some of those desktops have gotten better. What is great for some people is a bleah for others. OSX zaealots may think that having a unique top menu is a great thing and blah blah while some studies done in Stanford university say that this is actually a big no-no in usability. So there is NO "best" or better... Down with OS religion and prejudices!