Title: Novell patent pool filing by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC withdrawn Post by: HCK on January 11, 2011, 11:00:27 pm Novell patent pool filing by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC withdrawn
A plan created by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC to create a consortium to acquire hundreds of Novell patents has been withdrawn after complaints from open source advocates, leaving the fate of the nearly half billion dollars' worth of patents uncertain. http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=38d83efb190d820c74374a711457328d |