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(Unverified)May 19th 2009 4:28PM

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Your reading of the Microsoft covenant is incorrect, and you are twisting it for the sake of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Anyone that *downloads* the Moonlight code from a Novell site is covered by the covenant:

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx

In the exact way that *anyone* downloading from Adobe.Com is covered for Flash use.

This covenant is not issued by Novell, but by Microsoft where the claim they will not assert their patents to anyone that downloads the code from Novell.

Has Adobe licensed the "Kodak" patents that Java was found to infringe a few years ago? It seems that without this license, some users might be liable to a patent lawsuit from Kodak if they are not careful.

See, patent FUD goes both ways.

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