On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:28:35PM -0500, simo wrote:
Rui you should get better information before calling doom. There are enough documents to answer your questions.
There is no carte-blanche for royalties on patents, and the EC was able to force Microsoft to provide a no-patents agreement to parties like the Samba Team (I am a Samba Team member btw) so that parties can get the documentation without recognizing any specific patent.
Without licensing. Not without recognizing. There is no provision that will protect anyone from patent threat from Microsoft.
There is a specific list of patents Microsoft must disclose (see the list attached to the agreement documents referenced in this thread earlier).
=> recognizing MS Software Patents in EU
Now we know exactly which are the claims of Microsoft, we can avoid patents or work around them.
=> recognizing MS Software Patents in EU
This is so crystal clear...
Rui