Re: [tlug] Novel embraces Microsoft

[stephen@example.com]

Edward Middleton writes:

 > > How would litigation work in this case? i.e. what legal grounds would
 > > MS/Novell have for taking the Samba developers to court?
 > 
 > Possibly patent infringement.  I don't think the SAMBA developers would
 > have any problems,

If it's patent infringement, it would apply to the developers, too,
and since I doubt they would expect significant royalty revenue from
third parties after the Unisys/LZW fiasco (Unisys and everybody else
lost, the lawyers won), the goal would be suppressing compatible
versions of SMB or whatever.