Has Microsoft’s Patent Deal with Novell Hurt Red Hat?

“The Microsoft Novell deal shocked the Linux world at the time
it was announced and potentially represented a risk to others in
the Linux market.

As it turns out, five years later, it’s a risk that hasn’t
affected SUSE Linux’s rival, Red Hat all that much, if at all.

“Patents always come up in the same way that it always comes up
for any piece of proprietary software,” Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red
Hat told InternetNews.com. “I don’t think it’s any different for us
than it is for any other software company.”

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