No

No

Posted Nov 5, 2006 2:39 UTC (Sun) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)
In reply to: No by JoeBuck
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Those guys contributed a whole hell of a lot of useful code, and were not in on the Novell/Microsoft negotiation.

How do you know that those two were not part of the negotiation, or did not promote the idea within Novell? We do know that Miguel has stepped up unabashedly as an apologist for the pact:

"today we have secured a peace of mind for Novell customers that might have been worried about possible patent infringements open source deployments" -- Miguel de Icaza

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