@FlorianMueller
It appears that the free world gets a GPL license and Microsoft gets a commercial license. The same patents will be licensed to two different licensees in two different ways. More interestingly, it appears that Microsoft is paying money merely to get a license of Novell's patents -- perhaps meaning that Microsoft is actually more worried about the possibility that Microsoft itself is infringing on UNIX and other Novell technologies than it is about buying more patents so that it can attack Linux for infringement.
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