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● 12.21.07

●● The More SUSE You Buy, the Richer Microsoft Gets

Posted in Finance, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patents at 6:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Novell has just released its annual report. There is a lot of information tightly compressed inside this report and it makes some good reading for the holiday. To pull just one bit of text:

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Microsoft made an upfront net balancing payment to us of $108 million, and we will make ongoing payments to Microsoft totaling a minimum of $40 million over the five-year term of the agreement based on a percentage of our Open Platform Solutions and Open Enterprise Server revenues.

So, if you needed a reason to avoid Novell products, this is it. Microsoft is collecting software patent tax from Novell, just as we have known from the start. This is just an explicit acknowledgment from Novell.

The more Novell gets paid, the more Microsoft collects. █

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