Experts say Microsoft's patent quest won't go far
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| He derided Microsoft for spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)
| rather than tackling the issue forthrightly. "If Microsoft were to
| actually tell people what patents they claim we violate, we could
| either laugh in their face and show prior art, or just show them
| to be obvious, or we could do things differently," he said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6184062.html
Related:
Microsoft: A law firm pretending to be an army pretending to be a software
company
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| SCO failed, so now Microsoft has to do the heavy lifting itself to
| undermine open source software's legitimacy. Actually, Microsoft
| prefers to undermine Red Hat's legitimacy. Or OpenXchange's. Or
| your company's.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2463
The Microsoft Open Source Patent Gambit
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| First, to reiterate, as a customer I am completely uninterested in
| buying something from a vendor, and then paying every other vendor
| in the space a license to their possible additional but unproved
| patents. I'm not even interested in licensing their PROVED patents.
| Patents are vendor to vendor discussions. To make sure the license
| wonks in Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs understand what I
| mean: As a customer, when I buy my Xerox copier, I do not intend
| to additionally license patents from HP, Canon, Epson, or ANY
| other copier manufacturer. I buy solutions from my vendors,
| and I expect value for money. I am uninterested in your
| protection shakedown. Move on. The bullying of customers stops now.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_microsoft_o.html
Free Advice for the Litigious...
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| You would be wise to listen to the customers you're threatening
| to sue - they can leave you, especially if you give them motivation.
| Remember, they wouldn't be motivated unless your products were somehow
| missing the mark.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_we_did
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