[CS-FSLUG] Novell Deals Done

[Cia Watson]

On Sat, 07 May 2011 23:38:50 -0400
"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

<portions snipped> 
> For Microsoft and friends, the most vexing part of the deal is that
> All of the Novell patents will be subject to the GNU General Public
> License, Version 2 (GPLv2) and the Open Invention Network
> (OIN)patent-pool agreements
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-gets-novells-patents-rights-but-must-share-them-with-open-source-software/8713>.
> In other words, Microsoft can't use these patents against Linux or
> other open-source programs.

I read this article, very interesting... for me the only interest, as
a linux user, would be mono (I think, since ianal). And when I
installed linux mint debian one of the very first things I did was
remove all mono & related app's -- and now I'm using straight Debian
and still Mono-free. And I'm really enjoying Debian (xfce). 

If that article basically says that Mono is covered under the GPL, that
could be quite a development... it will be interesting to see how it all
gets sorted out.