● 11.12.07

●● Quick Mention: Pieter Hintjens on Novell, Dell, and Patents

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.

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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.

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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.

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“How do you make money from free software?”, asked the VC. “Patents”, came the answer from the lawyer.

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