On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:01:21 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2151908,00.asp
>
>In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether his
>company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
>patent agreement.
>
>"I can't answer the question," he said.
I don't see how this is on topic in this. At any rate Red Hat has
already clarified it's position on both the interoperability and patent
fronts several times now.
The article seemed to be pretty slanted as well. There was no reason given
why not making a patent deal with Microsoft should cause people to jump
to Novell. In my biased experience the comments I have seen have indicated
that people were more likely to drop SUSE for RHEL because of this rather
than the other way around.