Comments on: A Patent Reform is Here, Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Weapons Get Blunt http://techrights.org/2007/07/19/patent-reform-oin/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/07/19/patent-reform-oin/comment-page-1/#comment-1326 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:57:35 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/19/patent-reform-oin/#comment-1326 I had this in mind when I wrote this. It is also why I chose the words “joined OIN and augmented its arsenal” rather than “joined OIN”, which is what I was going to write before realising that we had been corrected before. Novell also made a small contribution to the FSF, but it was so minor that it’s almost negligible. A 5,000-men company could do a lot more to protect Free software, but it seems to have lost focus and settled for a ‘mixed source’ strategy.

Novell’s recent EFF backing is commendable, but at the time (OSBC) it seemed like an attempt to save face.

]]> By: Mike http://techrights.org/2007/07/19/patent-reform-oin/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:10:05 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/19/patent-reform-oin/#comment-1323 Novell did join the IOIN, in fact it seeded it with a number of patents. Microsoft joining the OIN be the big deal

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