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[News] Car Analogy: Microsoft Cannot Use Patents Threat

If Novell and Microsoft Were in the Car Production and Sales Business...

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|    Look at it this way for a moment:
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|         * "If I, as an end-user, bought a car from Ford, that does
|           indeed contain technology infringing some patent owned by 
|           DaimlerChrysler--would there by any likelihood that Ford would
|           sue me, the end-user?
|         
|         * "However, if I, as an end-user, buy a SUSE Linux Enterprise Serv-
|           er, that *may* contain (well, it doesn't, and never will, as 
|           Novell strongly reassures me) software patented technology owned
|           by Microsoft--would there be any likelihood that Microsoft would 
|           sue me, the end-user? 
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