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| From: | Ciaran O'Riordan |
| Subject: | Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- InformationWeek: "Microsoft Strikes Linux Patent Deal With LG Electronics" |
| Date: | 08 Jun 2007 17:47:24 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
MS are trying to chalk down as many of these deals before GPLv3 comes into circulation because they know that people will stop being interested at that point. If MS were really confident in their patent portfolio, they wouldn't have to hand over so much money in each deal, as mentioned here: http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2007q2/000178.html -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org
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