In article <8200310.NzXUDIDAXr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Open source advocates brush off Microsoft patent threats
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> | Microsoft's threat to seek patent royalties from open source software
> | users and vendors is so far provoking more scorn than fear.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/supplier-relations/news/index.cfm?newsid=3011
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> Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats
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> | Rather than scare companies away from using or distributing open
> | source, the general consensus is that the company's threats of
> | litigation -- outlined in statements Microsoft executives
> | including CEO Steve Ballmer made to Fortune magazine this
> | week -- prove it's the software giant who is afraid of the
> | competitive threat Linux and open-source software pose to
> | its business long term.
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> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=672245206&rid=-50
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> Notice that not only developers are annoyed yet unafraid. Customers are also
> disconcerned. Microsoft is only driving away its own customers. It's doing a
> favour to Linux and Free software.
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> Microsoft adds it up
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> | What will Microsoft do about these perceived offenses? Will they go
> | after companies such as Red Hat Inc.? Open source users themselves?
> | Or, as other speculate, is Ballmer bluffing, offering vague threats
> | in lieu of actual evidence, or as a way to spook other open source
> | companies into signing a similar agreement inked by Novell?
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> http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/44280.html
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If this is MS's final "ace in the hole" then I can see a stock crash
approaching somewhere out there.
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