<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/12, Matthew Flaschen <<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu">matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sunnz wrote:<br>> 2007/6/11, Lam YongXian <<a href="mailto:adolf@adolflam.com">adolf@adolflam.com</a>>:<br>>><br>>> Is it possible to form a community to pull all our funds together to<br>>> fight microsoft?
<br>><br>><br>> If one is formed, maybe this organisation can spend its fund to get as many<br>> patent as they can, and grants everyone permission to use the patent<br>> provided they also grant everyone to use their patents under the same
<br>> condition; that is, GPL for patents, if you like.<br><br>This is similar to what OIN already does<br>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
</a>). But they should<br>only sue if someone sues GNU/Linux distributors first.</blockquote><div><br>And Novell is one of the founder of OIN? But then they still have this deal with MS... what are they thinking? Are they just getting "free money" from MS?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Matt Flaschen<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Advocate mailing list
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