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Old 12-07-2010
About Those 882 Novell Patents: This is Where OIN Comes In
I have some important news for you. It's about those 882 Novell patents that are being sold to a Microsoft-organized consortium in connection with the sale of Novell to Attachmate. I've been worrying about those patents, and I was wondering what happens to Novell's license to the Open Invention Network after the sale. So I took the time to find out. And it's very good news.
Here's how it works. The patents of OIN members are licensed to each other royalty-free in perpetuity. Even on a sale, the license remains in force for all pre-existing members. If you are a member of OIN prior to the closing on the Novell deal, then, you are covered. The proposed closing date is January 23rd, so you still have time to join OIN and get the benefit of the license to those patents. Then, if Microsoft shows up at your door, you can say, "Thanks, but no thanks. I already have a license." So here's what it all adds up to, by my reading: if ever you were thinking of joining the Open Invention Network, this is the sensible time to do it, as long as you get it done before this sale closes and that door shuts with respect to the Novell patents.

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mprof-heap-viewer(1)					      General Commands Manual					      mprof-heap-viewer(1)

NAME

       mprof-heap-viewer - GUI viewer for the logging profiler heap snapshots

SYNOPSIS

       mprof-heap-viewer file

DESCRIPTION

       mprof-heap-viewer GUI viewer for the logging profiler heap snapshots

       WARNING: this application is unfinished and experimental.  Nevertheless it should work, and bug reports are encouraged.

       This program decodes the contents of a logging profiler output file and locates all the heap snapshots inside it.  The user can then select
       each individual snapshot and decide to load it in memory and explore its contents.

       The GUI is organized to work on "object sets" (listed in a tree view on the left).  All operations are performed with a popup menu  on  the
       choosen set.

       Initially  the  sets are the heap snapshots (of course a heap snapshot can be considered a set of objects!).  For each set the GUI shows on
       the right a list that breaks it down by class (one row for each class).

       The user can then refine each set using a "filter", to select a subset.	Examples of filters are "all objects of class X", or "all  objects
       that reference an object of class X".  This way the user explores the sets breaking them down to subsets (each subset in the GUI is a child
       of its owner set on the tree view).

       Moreover the user can issue a "compare" operation between two arbitrary sets A and B, which will compute two subsets: "A - B" (the  objects
       of  A  which  are  not  in  B,  a subsect of A) and "B - A" (the reverse).  This can help in understanding what changed on the heap between
       garbage collections.

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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

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SEE ALSO

       mono(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)

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