Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft takes on the free world
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> | Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk
> | of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties
> | from distributors and users.
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> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
So Sweaty has finally put a number to his FUD has he?
Well I don't think we need to worry. After all, according to Ewik:
"Apparently you haven't been paying attetion(sic) for the last 20 years.
Microsoft has *NEVER* sued anyone in court for patent infringement where
they were not sued first.
Microsoft doesn't believe in using pattents(sic) offensively. Otherwise,
don't you think they'd have been filing lawsuits for the last decade?"
Microsoft also have themselves to thank for undermining the integrity of
the whole software patents system, suggesting that many of their claims
against FOSS might be thrown out due to "obviousness". In fact, if
actually put to the test, how many of these "inventions" will
subsequently turn out to have prior art? This is *Microsoft* we're
talking about, after all.
> Yup. Microsoft know it's dying, so it's clinging on to the last straw.
It'll be slow and painful ... for all of us.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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