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Linux vouchers, Microsoft, and GPL3: separating the signal from the noise

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Ars Technica; By Ryan Paul 		Mail this story
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Free Software Foundation (FSF) lawyer Eben Moglen claims that the absence of an expiration date on SUSE vouchers distributed by Microsoft will make Microsoft subject to terms of the GPL3, thus undermining Microsoft's patent threats against Linux by forcing the company to provide nearly unlimited upstream patent licenses.

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jrm ·
"Microsoft can be sure that some coupons will be turned into Novell"

Neat trick. Can we turn Microsoft into something less Microsoftish?

(Sorry. I couldn't stop myself.)

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