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[News] Op/Ed: Microsoft Won't/Can't Assault Linux

The fair-weather "friends of Linux"

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| I just finished reading John Carroll's article Why Microsoft won't
| assault Linux and while I agree with his conclusion, I don't agree
| with his reasoning.  John opens up suggesting that a "full legal
| assault" on Linux would be self-defeating.  I don't think so
| but I do think that filing suit against RedHat would be an
| unnecessary waste of Microsoft's time and money. 
| 
| I would like to dispense with his first point: Patents cut both 
| ways.  While this is certainly true, John assumes that there are
| powerful "friends of Linux" who would counter-sue Microsoft in a
| heartbeat if Microsoft were to use it's patents against RedHat and
| he reminds us that: Nobody has more patents than IBM.
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