[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“Are there grounds for OpenOffice.org users to be
concerned? Did Sun sell the open source community down the
river?“Bernard Golden: It does raise some theoretical
issues that could cause problems should things play out in a
certain fashion.“Brenno DeWinter: Licensing-wise there are no
grounds for concern. However, Microsoft has indicated that they are
building a portfolio of intellectual property based on software
patents…”
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