<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/04668aaa-397d-4f4b-b82e-e714d739d926/865C28FB-1C0E-4FC4-9028-D51FBE0F7196/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://slashdot.org/" href="http://slashdot.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">slashdot.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://slashdot.org/"><DIV class="intro"> <A rel="nofollow" href="http://slashdot.org/mailto:badgal@gmail.com">Geekgal</A> writes <I>"<A href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2059675%2C00.asp" set="yes">Red Hat has slammed the door shut</A> on any possibility of entering into a patent protection deal similar to the one Microsoft recently announced with Novell, eWeek is reporting. While Microsoft has repeatedly said it wants to work with Red Hat and would like to structure a relationship where its customers can be assured of the same thing as <A href="http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/02/1957252.shtml?tid=109">Novell's customers</A> now are, Mark Webbink, Red Hat's deputy general counsel, says 'we do not believe there is a need for or basis for the type of relationship defined in the Microsoft-Novell announcement.' Interestingly enough, Microsoft also says that it has not ruled out going it alone and providing some sort of indemnification for its customers who also use Red Hat Linux."</I> Meanwhile, Eben Moglen, the FSF general counsel, promises that <A href="http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/2006/11/is-microsoft-novell-deal-dead-on.html">GPLv3 will explicitly outlaw</A> deals like this. (Of course everyone's on v2, so calling the Novell deal "DOA" would be premature.) </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/865C28FB-1C0E-4FC4-9028-D51FBE0F7196/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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