“Partners of GeCAD, the Romanian antivirus firm bought by
Microsoft recently, have complained about the sale, saying that its
popular Linux and Novell products now have no future.“Microsoft will only use the intellectual property belonging to
GeCAD on internal development for Windows, although it will
maintain existing service level agreements with current GeCAD
customers.“‘We will be honouring existing agreements but there will be no
new development outside of Microsoft,’ said Hillary Wittmann,
security marketing manager at Microsoft…”
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