Re: Groklaw watcher: Novell got $240 million from MS for SUSE subscriptions and $108 million for patent something

[Alexander Terekhov]

David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> Now Novell is supposed to be an Open Source outlet, and they are
> _receiving_ net money for somewhat fuzzy patent/indemnification claims

Somewhat fuzzy? Oh dear GNutian dak, recall that Groklaw PJ's partner 
OSRM and Eben's underling Dan (Ravicher of SFLC) made a study and 
identified Microsoft as the holder of 27 of 283+ patents in "plain 
vanilla kernel" alone. (What a nice free service and PR work for 
Microsoft.)

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3389071
(Linux's Patent Risk)

regards,
alexander.