● 11.14.07

●● Another Linux Patent Deal. This Time It’s Kyocera Mita Corp.

Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware, Kyocera Mita, Microsoft, Novell, Patent Covenant, Patents at 2:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

What the…?

This one looks similar to the Samsung and Fuji Xerox deals. It is about embedded devices.

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Agreement will cover intellectual property contained in hardware and software products, including certain Linux-based technologies.

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Which patents does Kyocera Mita allegedly infringe on? It’s safe to say that Kyocera Mita did not even ask and Microsoft would not say because, according to Microsoft, it requires too much paper.

Hey, Novell, didn’t you insist your stupid (and seminal) deal had nothing to do with patents? A lot of this can be blamed on you setting a precedence, just as Bruce Perens and others have predicted from the very start.

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