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Novell acquired by AttachmateNovell acquired by AttachmatePosted Nov 25, 2010 0:05 UTC (Thu) by garloff (subscriber, #319)Parent article: Novell acquired by Attachmate
The article seems to assume that Novell has many patents that cover things that are used in Linux. I fail to see where that assumption comes from.
Maybe Novell happens to have many old ones that happen to cover things used in Linux?? I've certainly not seen any uproar on Novell filing patents that would cover stuff used in Linux since Novell had bought SUSE. I would think that enough people were watching this that I would be surprised if a large number would exist. Also I have seen Novell/SUSE contribute to GPL3 projects, which you would avoid if you had collected patents that you'd want to assert.
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Novell acquired by Attachmate Posted Nov 25, 2010 22:26 UTC (Thu) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]
Well if you're cynical like me, you just go under the general assumption that any software less trivial than "Hello world" is likely in violation of at least 50 software patents, so you leave it at that and hope to goodness someone doesn't sue you.
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