Microsoft is rejected on patents case
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| An appeals court on Friday rejected Microsoft Corp.'s challenge to a $142
| million trial loss over patents on a way to prevent software piracy.
|
| "Substantial evidence supports the jury's verdict" that Microsoft infringed
| two valid patents owned by closely held z4 Technologies Inc., the appeals
| court in Washington, D.C., ruled.
|
| [...]
|
| "There's something about it that strikes us as, 'How'd that happen?' " said
| Andrew Culbert, chief Microsoft patent counsel. He said Microsoft probably
| will ask the court to reconsider.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/340059_msftsuit17.html
Bill Hilf’s interview with InformationWeek explained
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| Page 3 is the best part of the interview. Mr. Hilf talks about having a "map"
| (which wasn’t correct, as Information Week pointed out); he then adds:
|
| Classically, our preferred plan is to license our technology in a very
| proactive and productive way versus litigate.
|
| Which doesn’t answer the questions: what, are, these, patents?
|
| Mr. Hilf, please tell us. We all want to know. Please.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/bill_hilf_interview_with_informationweek_explained
Related:
Microsoft director out to 'debunk mythology around open source'
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| "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even
| Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head
| of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.
|
| [...]
|
| Hilf accused his former employers, IBM, of starting a standards war
| simply because they wanted a part of the Office market. People do
| not want ODF (Open Document Format), but they want a way to control
| the information they create, he claimed.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php
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| "We would like to strike similar patent deals with all the Linux
| vendors, but we had to start somewhere," said Bill Hilf.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2064986,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
What Will Change at Microsoft with Regard to F/OSS Patents
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| Hilf’s response was... priceless. “I get a lot of e-mail.” “People like to
| subscribe me to crazy newsletters and spam.”
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/07/what_will_change_at_microsoft.html
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
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| The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and
| unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local
| executive for Sun Microsystems.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-exec-accuses-Microsoft-of-patent-terrorism-/0,130061733,339280437,00.htm
Microsoft, the art of Corporate Terrorism.
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| Microsoft, no longer the technological leader in the Computer Desktop
| market, is taking on a terrorist role in its attempt remain in power
| at all costs. (see the link to the CNN story below)
|
| The tactic is intended to frighten current, and would be, free
| software users away from products that Microsoft just can't compete
| with. It's not a new tactic, but for the first time desperation is
| beginning to show.
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http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Microsoft_Terrorism
Convicted Monopolist Terrorizes Software Industry
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| That headline is designed to grab your attention. Sensationalistic as
| it may be, it also happens to be true, if what you mean by 'terrorize'
| is to provoke fear.
|
| If you've been following the presidential race in the United States,
| you know the present crop of candidates have been exploiting the fear
| of the American people as they never have before in the history of
| the country.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/ms_threats.html
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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