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Archive for November 18th, 2006

Patent Protection Lovefest, Update 1

The Wall Street Journal published a spot-on article a few days ago about the Novell+Microsoft arrangement.
It’s only available online to subscribers, so I scanned it:

And making the news yesterday, The CEO of Microsoft has straight up said that every (with the exception of Novell/SuSE of course!) linux company, developer, and user is violating Microsoft-held patents, [...]