Open Invention Network Comments On Article In Fortune
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| In less than a year, OIN has accumulated more than 100 strategic,
| worldwide patents and patent applications that span Web / Internet,
| e-commerce, mobile and communications technologies. These patents
| are available to all as part of the free Linux ecosystem that OIN
| is creating around, and in support of Linux. We stand ready to
| leverage our IP portfolio to maintain the open patent environment
| OIN has helped create.
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http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php
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
That would be Vista and Longhorn (Server 2008). It has been said before.
These products mark the point where Microsoft become a patent troll on life
supply that's its savings, a dying cash cow (because ODF is spreading
rapidly), and bullies that manipulate politics (e.g. in Florida).
Consider this as well:
'"The company's reluctance to detail its claims is reminiscent of the
position taken by SCO Group ...SCO's reluctance to detail its evidence
eventually led to it being heavily criticized by Magistrate Judge Brooke
Wells in June 2006. "Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of
shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus they would expect to be
eventually told what they allegedly stole," she wrote. "It would be absurd
for an officer to tell the accused that 'you know what you stole I'm not
telling'. Or to simply hand the accused individual a catalog of Neiman
Marcus' entire inventory and say 'it's in there somewhere, you figure it
out'."'
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B64949DF-6D27-4B0F-8C1A-D3A1E6F61343
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