Ha Ha Ha, Hee Hee Hee, I’m a laughing Gnome and you can’t sue me!
Well blow me down with a feather!
It appears as though Microsoft have really shot themselves in the proverbial foot this time….
I found groklaw a few days ago which started out tracking and discussing the SCO vs IBM lawsuit, many years ago – yes it is still on going. [I knew I should have studied law]
I am not a lawyer but the contributors seem to know what they are on about and this latest twist in the tail sounds about par for the course. The “vouchers” which Microsoft bought from Novell to resell as a ‘we won’t sue you if buy Linux with one of these’ pledge have no expiry date! This means, according to Eben Moglen that:
“the minute someone turns in a voucher after GPLv3 is in effect, Microsoft will be granting a patent license to everyone, not just Novell’s paying customers”
Ooops. Or should that be OOo‘ps?