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Re: First steps in the patent protection racket

  • Subject: Re: First steps in the patent protection racket
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:07:48 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | What's got Microsoft so spoooked? As the Fortune article noted, the GPL
> | v3's provisions regarding the Microsoft-Novell deal suggest that
> | Microsoft itself could be considered a "Linux distributor," and thus
> | beholden to the GPL v3 terms.
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=437

Microsoft should tread carefully. Whom has who's balls in a vice?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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