Microsoft Gives Xandros Users Patent Protection 298
DigDuality writes "Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers."
Very disappointed with Xandros (Score:1, Informative)
See also: http://www.bpmlegal.com/wselden.html [bpmlegal.com].
A propoganda step with a little fish (Score:5, Informative)
They took the money that Microsoft offered. That's really all the news there is here - that Microsoft found another foundering commercial Linux distribution willing to sign up to the patent covenant and give it publicity. The technical aspects are irrelevant, as they indeed are in the Novell deal. Xandros is a little fish without significant technology to offer. Even in the case of Novell, nobody needed Microsoft's help with virtualization - the only thing Microsoft can offer is the slight performance increment of paravirtualization for Windowsover the full virtualization that is available now.
There's not much to do about Xandros. They aren't a big player, this isn't going to make them into one. We should turn away from them as was the casewith Novell, but it seems a bit silly since most of us didn't even know they existed.
Bruce
Re:Patents? (Score:5, Informative)
"The agreement with Xandros, to be announced Monday, includes a promise by Microsoft to refrain from pursuing patent claims against users of Xandros software."
Tell Xandros what you think (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Andreas Typaldos (CEO of Xandros) is a MORON! (Score:3, Informative)
Don't be ignorant. The "community" typically has day jobs in the IT sector where they get to recommend vendors. By pissing off the community, they've bought themselves a lot of bad word-of-mouth inside companies that they seek to sell cupport contracts to.
I used to recommend SuSE whenever I had the chance. Not any more.
Re:Tell Xandros what you think (Score:3, Informative)
Thanks
Bruce
Lotus v. Borland (Score:4, Informative)