Microsoft/Novell agreement posted

[Posted May 25, 2007 by corbet]

The terms of the Microsoft/Novell deal have been posted at last. There are three parts: the patent cooperation agreement granting the patent non-licenses, the technical collaboration agreement describing the technical work each company will do, and the business collaboration agreement on the business arrangements.

Microsoft/Novell agreement posted

Posted May 27, 2007 9:57 UTC (Sun) by hansl (subscriber, #5086) [Link] (1 responses)

What I find interesting is that they exclude a number of
'clone poducts' from the patent agreement, whereby the definition
of 'clone product' appears to be carefully worded to apply
to Wine, OpenXchange, StarOffice and OpenOffice, but not
Samba and Mono.

Microsoft/Novell agreement posted

Posted May 28, 2007 9:09 UTC (Mon) by jacno (subscriber, #15083) [Link]

You may want to read wine weekly newsletter's point of view in issue 332 :
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=332

Microsoft/Novell agreement posted

Posted May 27, 2007 20:30 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178) [Link]

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Ah, it's all so clear now.