Ballmer on Novell, Linux and patents
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| Since the announcement of the patent and business collaboration deal
| between Microsoft and Novell two weeks ago, some have labeled
| Novell a sell-out for making the agreement. But during a session
| this morning at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)
| summit in Seattle, an audience member turned the question around onM
| icrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer, asking if the Redmond company was selling
| out by collaborating with a Linux vendor. Ballmer answered the
| question with a long explanation of the Novell deal, from his
| perspective. I'll post the full question and answer in the
| extended entry, below. In particular, it will be interesting
| to see how people react to Ballmer's comments on Microsoft,
| Linux and intellectual property -- including his view that,
| because of the Novell deal, "only a (Linux) customer who has
| Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of
| intellectual property from Microsoft." Additionally,
| he reiterated Microsoft's interest in striking a similar
| patent deal with Red Hat, something Red Hat says it won't do.
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Not much is new, but it comes right from the horse's (or baboon's) month.
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