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"One of the key elements in the Novell / Microsoft Collaboration announcement from last week was a patent covenant that was intended to provide non-commercial, individual open source developers with the coverage necessary for them to develop code without concern of infringing any of Microsoft's patents. (Before you go too far, please be aware that we are getting rid of the 'hobbyist' label--there have been many comments about this. Also, this blog posting is not about the openSUSE.org covenant...)"

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