[Ma-linux] MS Protection racket?

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:09:43AM -0400, Keith Casey wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Serge Wroclawski <serge at wroclawski.org> wrote:
> >The first and most important issue around this is that the GPL3 has
> >patent protection clauses built in to it, so we're all safe. In fact,
> >we're safter than we were by means of Microsoft's distribution of Suse
> >says Eben Moglen. Even without that, the patent protection clause in
> 
> Not quite....
> 
> Every license agreement - GPL or not - is based on the rights which
> the *owner/creator* of such software grants you... but he can't give
> you any rights which he does not own.

The issue is Microsoft patents, and if Microsoft is giving away 
GNU/Linux, it's a distributor, and as a distributor, granting royalty 
free uses of its patents.

- Serge Wroclawski