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Sorry.

Anything ANN can say abotu licenses is said in the news. All I can do on this is repeat the obvious, "No announcement has been made yet."

With new licenses that we learn about early, one of two things happen, 1) we find out through an unofficial source that dosn't care if we publicize it (a leak), in which case we often do post it. or 2) The company tells us in confidense (sometiems requiring a signed NDA) in which case we can't say anything, but we can prepare coverage for it. Lately 2 has been much more common, we kinda use #1 as a threat to the companies, "We're going to find out one way or another, but if you tell us, then we won't steal your thunder." So them telling us is mutually beneficial, but one the unfortunate result is that there will be less occasions of us posting stuff before the official announcements. On the up-side, as I said, we have stuff ready to go when they make the announcements.

So if it isn't on the front page, we won't comment.

Sorry.