____/ [H]omer on Thursday 18 October 2007 14:22 : \____
> Playing Microsoft patent poker
>
> .----
> | Opinion -- It's become an annual event. Steve Ballmer shoots his
> | yap about how Linux and open source violate Microsoft patents. The
> | open-source community says, "OK, show us your cards, your patents,"
> | and Ballmer shuts up for six months or so.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9559417024.html
>
> Postulates the links between the patent Trolls. It's just one big happy
> crime family.
Oops. Duped it, but he's definitely got some smoking guns there.
Microsoft continues with the proxy stategy.
Novell for GPL.
Novell, Xandros, Linpire and many others as an OOXML proxy.
Citrix as a XenSource proxy.
SCO as an attack-on-Linux proxy
Among many more...
See that previous item on Microsoft's "ecosystem" -- a study for which they
paid. It's a big protection racket orgy for an abusive monopoly whose cash
piles everyone wants to share, including the trolls in this newsgroups (scum
like Bill Weisgerber, for instance).
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