Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it proposed to buy from Novell under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. The deal will not end a DOJ investigation into the sale, the DOJ said in a press release. Microsoft will receive a license to use those patents and patents acquired by the other three owners of CPTN. The agreement will allow the first phase of the US$450 million deal to proceed, but the changes will allow it to proceed. The DOJ said the deal would have jeopardized the ability of open-source software to innovate.”]
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