The Novell-MS-deal: Can someone enlighten me?
Florian Haas
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Martedì, 28 Novembre 2006
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Novell held a QA-session on IRC today, and i tripped over one thing both Novell and MS are emphasizing:
Microsoft has promised not to sue individual developers.
Jason Matusow (MS) has written:
As you comment, please keep in mind that we are talking about individuals, not .orgs, not .com, not non-profits, not...well, not anyone other than individual non-commercial coders.
I think it is a good thing that the promise not to sue is a good thing. No matter how innocent you are, defending yourself is expensive and cumbersome.
However, this promise seems to be completely worthless: The guy who is packaging the software does not fall under this promise. Neither does the hosting-provider or the users.
Additional thought: Which software is developed by a single developer? Most software is developed by a team or a project, which both don't seem to fall under this promise.
Am i missing something, or is this deal completely worthless(even for Novell)?
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