Novell Partners With EFF on Patent Busting

Seymour writes "Novell and the EFF have announced that Novell will be contributing to the EFF's Patent Busting Project. Novell will also support the EFF's efforts toward patent reform, including with the WIPO. Could this be Novell trying to get back in the good graces of Linux users? 'Novell's agreement with Microsoft has been a source of contention within open source circles, with one Red Hat executive accusing the company of appeasing Microsoft; others have accused Novell of violating the GPL with the agreement. Either way, signing the deal with Microsoft did a lot to sully Novell in the eyes of many Linux users, and Novell's decision to link up with the EFF on patents may have been made with an eye towards getting some of its street cred back with the OSS community.'"

Re:Doesn't really work like that

[Anonymous Coward]

Same thing about even buying/keeping shares in the bad company.

At least they're using the money Microsoft gave them to stab them in the back.

Re:Doesn't really work like that

[timmarhy]

right because novell has been making buckets of cash these days, with it's dominating products like netware....

Patent Busting eh

[mastershake_phd]

Patent Busting? That sounds like a business model. I bet you could patent that....

Too late! Once you go Slack, you never go back!

[SadGeekHermit]

Hail Dobbs!

Oblig

[phalse phace]

Billg: Novell partnering with EFF? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.

Re:Same Old Story - With a Different Beat

[gselfridge]

Maybe a bracelet from Jared would help.

Re:Doesn't really work like that

[LiquidCoooled]

Have you seen Wario wares for the Wii?

It makes your eyes bleed whilst you play, then as a double insult you get the tune in your head.
Its torture.

At least Sony rooted your computer, Nintendo manage to root your brainstem.

Mythbusters...

[hoojus]

They could make a show called Patent busters where they could test patents and mark them as Plausible, Prior Art or Laughable. Then to keep in the spirit of Mythbusters they could use explosions by blowing up the companies that try to sue based on Prior art or laughable patents.

Re:All this shows

[mgpeter]

Free Software is over hyar, Microsoft is over thyar. The only acceptable compromise is for Microsoft to surrender; we have nothing to gain by moving towards them.

Only the Sith think in Absolutes