Hi guys,
I recently read an article in a computer magazine which says that Microsoft signed a contract with Renault ( French car - maker) for updating and maintaining SUSE Linux - Microsoft will sell 1000 licences of SUSE Enterprise Linux server system to Renault and will help Renault at integrating opensource solutions with Windows. A part of the contract is a special clause in which Microsoft states that they will not sue customers buying this license for the alleged abuse of their patents ( Microsoft states that at least 27 of their registered patents are in use by the opensource community). The author of the article concludes, that if the dispute between the two parties ( Microsoft and Opensource) was taken to court, there is no way of knowing which of the two would win.
So, can Microsoft sue me for using Kubuntu?
And why can't they just stick to their own OS?
I recently read an article in a computer magazine which says that Microsoft signed a contract with Renault ( French car - maker) for updating and maintaining SUSE Linux - Microsoft will sell 1000 licences of SUSE Enterprise Linux server system to Renault and will help Renault at integrating opensource solutions with Windows. A part of the contract is a special clause in which Microsoft states that they will not sue customers buying this license for the alleged abuse of their patents ( Microsoft states that at least 27 of their registered patents are in use by the opensource community). The author of the article concludes, that if the dispute between the two parties ( Microsoft and Opensource) was taken to court, there is no way of knowing which of the two would win.
So, can Microsoft sue me for using Kubuntu?
And why can't they just stick to their own OS?
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