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Microsoft, Novell exchange money, patents
In turn, Novell will also be paying Microsoft for usage of their patents. Strange stuff.
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techie242
on November 8, 2006 6:21 PM |
The announcement demonstrates that more business and government agencies are looking to a combination of open and proprietary solutions and companies must work to offer interoperability solutions that enable customers to deploy open source and proprietary software more efficiently and addresses the IP open source issues that customers were most concerned about. |
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mrtbone
on November 8, 2006 11:31 PM |
Despite the claims by some elements of the open source community that OSS is a religion or a way of life, it’s a commercial business model. One that has attained a great deal of success, as proven by the important deal. |
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lindalo
on November 9, 2006 9:13 PM |
While many have tried to divide the technology world into separate universes - open source or proprietary – the reality is more and more companies are using a mix of solutions and this will go along way towards meeting the needs of folks who use both solutions. |
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dkirkjr
on November 13, 2006 11:37 PM |
In order for open source to become more widely available and commercially viable, it's going to have to be able to tap into the broader markets. Novell and Microsoft might just be leading the way here, working together without having to be forced to do so by regulatory agencies. |
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