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Microsoft is running as fast because it can to patch up its patent agreements with Linux vendors to thwart any achievable influence from your GPLv3.About the heels of repudiating any Novell Linux items covered by the GPLv3, Microsoft is taking a comparable tack with Linspire,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, an additional with the Linux distribution vendors which inked a patent-protection/interoperability agreement with Microsoft.Microsoft announced the signing of a patent-protection take care of Linspire on June thirteen. The offer also went past patent-protection to consist of numerous interoperability provisions. But like all of Microsoft;s agreements with Linux distro vendors, the crux with the Linspire deal was/is patent safety.On July five, Microsoft posted to its Web site a “Covenant to Customers” document. (Thanks to Information Week for unearthing the link.) That document details terms of what is and isn;t protected by the Linspire-Microsoft deal. Around the “isn;t” side are any client offerings covered through the GPL v3. From Microsoft;s Covenant document:“‘Client Offerings; means any software items of Linspire that incorporate the Linux running system,Office Professional Plus, including Linspire Five-0 and successor offerings. However, Client Offerings do not contain (i) any portions of goods that comprise or contain Foundry Items, Clone Goods, GPLv3 Software or Other Excluded Goods, (ii) Freespire and any other software offerings that incorporate the Linux working system for which Linspire receives no Revenue, (iii) any products running on a server, or (iv) any Linspire CNR applications distributed separately from the Linux operating system.”In case you want the footnotes, “GPLv3 software” means:“those portions of software items of Linspire, if any, that are distributed by Linspire under Version 3 or later with the GNU General Public License (And “Other Excluded Products” refer to:“(a) any applications (e.g. office productivity applications, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software) to the extent they are hosted by or running on a computer acting as a server for a connected client device, (b) any software embedded in,Office 2010 Pro Plus Key, or otherwise operating on, any servers or other devices (printers,Office 2010 Professional Key, cameras, game consoles, set-top boxes, phones, handheld devices, TVs, etc.) other than personal computers, laptops or workstation computers, and (c) new features and functions in the following categories of goods: (i) video game consoles (e.g.,Office 2010 Keygen, Xbox video game consoles), console games, video game applications designed to run on a computer, and on-line video gaming services (e.g., Xbox live); (ii) business applications designed, marketed and used to meet the data processing requirements of particular business functions, such as but not limited to accounting, payroll, human resources, project management, personnel performance management, sales management, financial forecasting, financial reporting, customer relationship management, and supply chain management; and (iii) unified communications.”In other words, if Linspire adopts the GPLv3, customers won;t get a whole lot of safety from Microsoft at all.I;m betting there;s yet another Covenant in the works for Xandros. (So far, I can;t find a single if it exists.)The Free Software Foundation released the GPLv3 on June 29. Some Linux vendors have given the new license their full backing; others have but to do so. Prior to the final GPLv3 release, Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was critical of some of its terms.If all with the Microsoft patent-protection deals attempt to disclude GPLv3 software, do they really have any merit, as far as “protecting” users?