Novell Exec Slams Deal With Microsoft
Novell vice president Miguel de Icaza, one of the more public faces of a growing relationship between Microsoft and Novell, Thursday slammed the patent licensing agreement between the two companies during a wide-ranging panel discussion of Microsoft's commitment to openness.
"I'm not happy such an agreement was made," he said during the discussion, held at Microsoft's MIX conference in Las Vegas. "I think we should have stayed in the open source community. It's above my pay grade."
Even so, Icaza, who heads up Moonlight, Novell's open source port of Microsoft's .NET Framework, said he's committed to working within the framework of the licensing agreement. "If I keep complaining that I'm a victim, I'm not going to get anywhere," he said. He also stood up for the deal after Mozilla engineering VP Mike Schroepfer criticized it.
Though Schroepfer criticized Microsoft's patent licensing agreements, he applauded the company's moves to make Internet Explorer 8 a standards-compliant Web browser, calling the browser's default standards mode a "fantastic thing for the Web."
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