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Jones v. de Icaza

Novell's open-source vice president, Miguel de Icaza, defended the company in a spirited response posted to his blog.

"The reality is that people react emotionally--it's Microsoft," said Justin Steinman, Novell's director of marketing for Linux and open-platform solutions. "If people can step away from the emotion and look at this objectively, they can see this (document interoperability) as goodness for the end customer."

The key difference is that Miguel de Icaza is looking at things from the POV of a proprietary software vendor (Novell) which has a "separate peace" with Microsoft and can get exclusive use of others' work (OpenOffice.org) by adding Microsoft patented material.

Pamela Jones, on the other hand, is looking at things from the POV of a user who doesn't want to lose something useful (OpenOffice.org and her own data) when Microsoft brings down the patent hammer.

In other words, where you stand depends on where you sit. In this instance, users' interests are opposed to those of Novell and Microsoft.

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