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Patent encumbered code

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 28, 2006 10:37 PM
"We're going to write new virtualization code, new Open XML code, and release it all as open source. We contribute heavily to open source already, but now we can do more."

It is far from clear that any of this code will be of any use to the FOSS community as it may be using Microsoft patents, which Novell is protected from, but nobody else is.

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