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Does this taint any Novell contributed code?

Posted Nov 3, 2006 19:34 UTC (Fri) by kornak (guest, #17589)
Parent article: Various responses to Microsoft/Novell

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, code contributed by
Novell is potentially tainted by implication? Never mind the emotional
taint that will affect their product. I think this just might be the
worst business decision they have ever made.

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Posted Nov 3, 2006 21:53 UTC (Fri) by kornak (guest, #17589) [Link]

It also occurs to me that Microsoft by implying that they might sue is
enough to threaten the Linux market. They could not in reality risk it since
they risk closer scrutiny of their own chain of code ownership. The threat
is all they need to de-stabalize the market.