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