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Title	Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 03/06/2008
Summary	Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux. continue

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