Source: Computer World Network Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will seek a closer way to cooperate with the developers of Open Office open source projects, but according to the document announced this week, Microsoft is obviously preserved. Their rights. The agreement with a problem is signed in April. It is part of the value of nearly 2 billion US dollars in Microsoft, SUN. Sun is published in the document submitted to the US Securities Regulatory Commission on Monday. The agreement pointed out that Microsoft can obtain loss compensation to the Open Office, or publisher installed after April 1, 2004. SUN's spokesman Lus pointed out that users who were named StarOffice's commercial version of Open Office would not be pursued. Kelley Drye and Warren LLP LLP's anti-monopoly business Richard said, although this protocol effectively protects a lot of Open Office users will not be investigated by Microsoft, it may have been pursued by new users. From now on, if you install, develop, issue Open Office, Microsoft has the right to prosecute you. Richard said that Sun has made Microsoft's rights to install Open Office after April 1, which may mean that Sun has reduced the intensity of Open Office open source project project. Russen has different views on Richard's judgment. He said that Sun's support for Open Office, as always, Microsoft has the right to supin Office users. No one provides warranty and legal responsibility for open source software, Open Office is no exception. Louis, a senior community development manager of Collabnet, said that Open Office's developers were confused by some of the provisions of the agreement, but Sun did not change after Open Office in April. But an open source software enthusiast has different views on the agreement. The editor of the Groklaw.net website said that this is not a good sign, because this means that Microsoft has the right to sue Open Office's end users infringe its intellectual property. Sun has only protected its StarOffice user. In an interview with email, she said that Sun is doubtful. Analysts said that considering the "intimacy relationship" between Sun Company and Open Office, this terms may be required. Microsoft hopes to clarify this, that is, although it has signed a cross-license agreement with Sun, it is not intended that Sun can protrude umbrella for open source organization.
