__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 18 May 2007 21:27 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo
> <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:50:10 -0700
> <17GdnVn86q-2VtDbnZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> | infringe. So on the one hand, Microsoft is saying "Nice standard
>>> | you've got there," while on the other hand, warning "Implement
>>> | it if you dare, but only for a price."
>>
>> One other thing that people forget is that when Microsoft was acquiring
>> patents like mad, they kept saying "oh, it's just defensive in case
>> someone sues us".
>
>> Well, now they're on the offensive.
They just filed a lot of patent applications and now they say "we have a lot
of patents, we won't be specific, but be very scared"..
>> Come to think of it, I really believe that they know they are the
>> infringers and so they're striking first. It's like the murderer
>> trying to pin the crime on the innocent...
Yes, and they tried to do this to PJ, using media 'placements'.
> They're not the infringers if they own the patents.
> Of course, the suit might backfire if the patent is
> invalidated via prior art or other such.
>
> It's a risk.
Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is one of the biigest IP theives of
all time, if there's such a thing as IP at all.
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