The announcement last week that Microsoft and Novell agreed to collaborate on open source software stunned many technology experts. The debate over open source software is rooted in patents, said one lawyer. Proprietary software makers like Microsoft jealously guard their software source code and protect it with patents, which are despised by the open source community. But this deal is far more than a philosophical truce -- both companies have hundreds of millions of dollars riding on the outcome.
November 09, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The announcement last week that Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. had agreed to collaborate on open source software stunned many experts in the information technology industry.
“Hell freezes over,” declared one industry publication. The headline reflected the sense of disbelief felt by many people familiar with Microsoft’s historic opposition to the “open source” nonproprietary software that Novell supports.
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