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KDEdevelopers.org: If Novell and Microsoft Were in the Car Production and Sales Business…

“Look at it this way for a moment:

  • “If I, as an end-user, bought a car from Ford, that does indeed
    contain technology infringing some patent owned by
    DaimlerChrysler–would there by any likelihood that Ford would sue
    me, the end-user?
  • “However, if I, as an end-user, buy a SUSE Linux Enterprise
    Server, that *may* contain (well, it doesn’t, and never will, as
    Novell strongly reassures me) software patented technology owned by
    Microsoft–would there be any likelihood that Microsoft would sue
    me, the end-user?

“Let’s do a little thought experiment…”

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