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Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’
In an unusually fast turnaround, Microsoft replied within hours to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian’s “Open Letter to the Community from Novell.” In a statement, Microsoft acknowledges that Novell never agreed, as some critics of the deal have claimed, to Microsoft’s vague contentions of patent violations in Linux. In his open letter to the community, Hovsepian…
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Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims
Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with…
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Novell and the Brave New Open-Source World
For some people, when Novell recently made a deal with Microsoft, it might as well have sold its soul to the devil. At the same time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been mouthing off about how Microsoft signed the pact because Linux “uses our intellectual property” and Microsoft wanted to “get the appropriate economic return…
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IBM Rolls Out Latest Batch of ‘Service Products’
Concluding a staged rollout covering two months, IBM has spilled out a grab bag of so-called “service products” encompassing a wide range of skills and technologies, from point-of-sale systems to an IT executive workshop. The bundles of software and expertise sold as distinct packages bring to fruition a significant goal of IBM: to capitalize on…
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JBoss, Red Hat See European Market as Bellwether
BERLIN—JBoss, a division of Red Hat, says the European market is one of its most successful. Speaking at the JBoss World Berlin conference here, Werner Knoblich, vice president and general manager of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) market for Red Hat, said JBoss momentum is very high in the EMEA region. Indeed, there…
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Researchers Chide Zango for Ignoring FTC Adware Settlement
Leading researchers say adware broker Zango continues to employ questionable business practices to distribute its programs, even as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission finalizes a settlement proposed by the company that would ban it from such activity. In a statement posted on his Web site Nov. 20, independent adware researcher and Harvard-trained attorney Ben Edelman…
