Comments on: Lenovo to Offer Linux Notebooks http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovo-to-offer-linux-notebooks/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: butters http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovo-to-offer-linux-notebooks/#comment-54948 butters Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:33:14 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-54948 Some corrections. First, Dell has also partnered with Novell in offering SLED 10 PCs for the corporate market. The consumer deal involving Ubuntu has gotten more press. <br /> <br /> Next, while the Microsoft-Novell patent covenant does cover their mutual customers, it does not cover the two vendors themselves.<br /> <br /> Finally, Microsoft has extended similar patent covenant offers to nearly all of the major Linux vendors. Linspire and Xandros have accepted. Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Mandriva have declined. Some corrections. First, Dell has also partnered with Novell in offering SLED 10 PCs for the corporate market. The consumer deal involving Ubuntu has gotten more press.

Next, while the Microsoft-Novell patent covenant does cover their mutual customers, it does not cover the two vendors themselves.

Finally, Microsoft has extended similar patent covenant offers to nearly all of the major Linux vendors. Linspire and Xandros have accepted. Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Mandriva have declined.

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