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Novell/Microsoft invent the 'Hobbyist', forget what 'Community' means

Monday, 6 November 2006  |  richard dale

The recent Novell/Microsoft agreement purports to give what they call 'Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developers' the rights to use unspecified Microsoft patents. The terms are given in this Community Commitments - Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration. They define a 'hobbyist' as this:

Many software developers, often referred to as “hobbyists,