Eben Moglen: MS should remove patents from Novell agreement (video)

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Author: Joe Barr

In this segment of our week-long series of video excerpts from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen at last week’s Red Hat Summit in San Diego, he explains why it could be disastrous for Microsoft to continue the patent aggression that is part of their Novell agreement.Professor Moglen explains why Microsoft is currently “throwing coupons out of airplanes” and why GPLv3 makes it in their best interest to drop the patent clauses from their Novell agreement.

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Eben Moglen: GPLv3 not about MS and Novell

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