On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:55:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Brief: Microsoft Sits On Linux Dilemma Of Its Own Making
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> | It's threatening to sue Linux users, which are in all likelihood its own
> | customers as well.
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> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194500074&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
> http://tinyurl.com/vy2lh
FWIW:
: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061119163021490
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: Moglen sees that Microsoft is dividing the commercial and
: noncommercial sectors of the FOSS community, and then after they do
: that, "Microsoft then will be able to use its patents to sue to block
: the development of software in the non-commercial sector without the
: fear of suing its own customers, which is the force that now constrains
: them from misbehavior with their patent portfolio."
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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the
exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
- Frederick Douglas
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