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You could be right, and maybe that is one of the reasons. But I also thought it had to do with VFAT(?) being the default file system on Flash Drives and a pate

by jmclnx 3y ago

You could be right, and maybe that is one of the reasons. But I also thought it had to do with VFAT(?) being the default file system on Flash Drives and a patent M/S had. IIRC, RHEL and friends refused to sign because that M/S patent was working it way through the courts. But as others said, that article does not seem to reflect any kind of reality :)

vidarh 3y ago
That was one of the few (only?) patents that MS actually admitted to. Balmer made a bunch of really vague public threats where he refused to be drawn on which patents Linux (not Gnome, or KDE, or Gnome or KDE using distros specifically) he implied were infringing, most of which never materialised into any court cases or patent deals. Did they enter any other deals than the Novell deal, which involved MS paying Novell 11x what Novell paid MS?