On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:24:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>Patent Deals With Microsoft Mean Death To Linux?
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>| These companies were given access to thousands of man hours worth of code and
>| software, and they repay this kindness by outwardly betraying the license
>| that made this possible for them in the first place.
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>| Linux users are fine leaving things alone. Microsoft, on the other hand, sees
>| things from a completely different perspective.
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>http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7966
You would have to completely insane or terribly desperate to launch
a patent war. It would be incredibly expensive and it would expose
Microsoft's bluff to the world.
And who would you sue ? Over which patents ? In which country ?
...what a tangled mess it would be.
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