de Icaza: Microsoft and Novell Collaborate

“So today we have secured a peace of mind for Novell customers
that might have been worried about possible patent infringements
open source deployments. This matters in particular for Mono,
because for a long time its been the favorite conversation starter
for folks that find dates on Slashdot.

“Anyways, now that we got that out of the way, I wanted to point
to Michael Meeks’ blog entry on the OfficeXML collaboration, which
one of the major areas of collaboration, his blog entry is here,
regarding the general question around why support Office
XML…”

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