[linux-audio-user] RE: [linux-audio-dev] OT: interesting angle on the NOVL-MSFT deal

From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 01:30:01 EET

> None of that is a concern here. The "intellectual property risk" is only
> a problem in the USA because they support software patents. We don't
> have that in Europe, so the "intellectual propery risk" does not exist
> in Europe. There is still "copyright protection" in Europe, but Linux
> has the GPL license, so that is also not a business "risk".
>
> James

This was not posted because of copyright/IP reasons, but rather the business
model that the article implies Novell may be pushing for.

Ico
Received on Tue Dec 12 04:15:05 2006

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