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Posted in Microsoft, Novell, Patents, Red Hat at 2:32 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Have a look at the following analysis. It neatly connects with yesterday's analysis, which included the Dell deal.
=> ↺ the following analysis | yesterday's analysis
As I predicted here about two months ago, Dell has announced that it will offer its customers a neat package of Dell hardware, Suse Linux software, and Microsoft patents.
It’s very clear what is happening. Linux is now the de-facto commodity operating system for servers. Microsoft, having gone through the ignore-laugh-fight-lose cycle has now realised that it can turn patent troll on Linux and jump ahead a full business cycle, going from commercial server operating system to IPR revenue model without the messy free software step in between.
“How do you make money from free software?”, asked the VC. “Patents”, came the answer from the lawyer.
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