"According to a recent Reuters report, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) board was going to be looking into Novell Inc.'s rights to continue selling its version of the Linux operating system. That, however, is not actually what will be happening.
"Eben Moglen, the Software Freedom Law Center's executive director and an FSF board member, explained: 'This is a story being hyped by the Reuters guy who wrote it.'
"The Reuters quote was: 'The community of people wants to do anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it. They have every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the beginning of a significant patent aggression by Microsoft...'"
