[BadVista Advocate] Fwd: LG Customer Enquiry-[Ringo Kamens]

[Matthew Flaschen]

Sunnz wrote:
> 
> And Novell is one of the founder of OIN? But then they still have this deal
> with MS... what are they thinking?

Companies change just like people.  I guess Novell's story is that they
no longer thought OIN was enough to fend MS off.  Luckily, the OIN
patents aren't affected by any of this.

> Are they just getting "free money" from
> MS?

They did get some money from MS (and have to pay royalties back), but I
think the real point was to sell to the middle managers who are scared
of MS's FUD.

Matt Flaschen