Re: [tlug] Novel embraces Microsoft

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 06/11/06, Trevor Tinker <ttinker@example.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want to use a Linux back end in a M$ network then the "pay-for"
>> Novell version of SAMBA will be the way to go.
>> All other Linux flavours that run SAMBA will become the target of joing
>> M$-Novell litigation.
>
> 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, just any other vendor who distributed SAMBA.  That
said, considering the current goings on in EU, I don't think they would
try that just now.

Edward