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Le Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:31:00 +1300,
Graham Lauder <yorick_@openoffice.org> a écrit :

On Tuesday 23 November 2010 07:10:31 Ian Lynch wrote:
Is the take over of Novell going to affect the document foundation?

And my question would be; do any of the 882 patents sold to the
Microsoft consortium affect the go-ooo code and therefore expose TDF
to patent actions?

I don't know, but even without it we're exposed to the Sun-MS patent
deal that was only covering StarOffice. Software patents are a shame,
and ought to be fought, so in our case it's cholera or malaria you're
choosing...

Best,
Charles.



Cheers
GL



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