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[News] Torvalds Slams Patents, Does Not Trust Microsoft's BS

  • Subject: [News] Torvalds Slams Patents, Does Not Trust Microsoft's BS
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:43:15 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents

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| "...They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don't think 
| they've -- not that I've gone through any huge amount of law cases -- but I 
| don't think they've generally used patents as a weapon," Torvalds said. "But 
| they're perfectly happy to use anything at all as fear, uncertainty and doubt 
| in the marketplace, and patents is just one thing where they say, 'Hey, isn't 
| this convenient? We can use this as a PR force.'"     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft's recent work around improving its platform's interoperability with 
| Linux left Torvalds largely unmoved. 
| 
| "I think there are people inside Microsoft who really want to improve 
| interoperability and I also think there are people inside Microsoft who would 
| much rather just try to stab their competition in the back," he said. "I 
| think the latter class of people have usually been the one[s] who won out in 
| the end, but -- so I wouldn't exactly trust them."     
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/020408-torvalds-microsoft-is-bluffing-on.html

He's finally 'getting' it. How long before he realises, just like Cox, that
there's more to GPLv3 than Tivoization? Microsoft is getting paid for selling
his kernel.

Linus Torvalds Interview, Part II

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| Linus Torvalds: Patents are nasty. It’s kind of hard to really say a lot more 
| than the fact that patents on ideas in general are a huge mistake and the 
| whole notion that you can have patents, business models and software is 
| pretty broken to begin with.   
| 
| And at least in the EU so far they’ve been able to fight that whole notion of 
| patenting software. In the U.S., I think there are certainly more than just 
| open source people who are realizing that software patents are a huge 
| mistake.   
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http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/openvoices/2008/02/03/linus-torvalds-interview-part-ii/


Recent:

The Complex Crux Of Wireless Warfare

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| Boeing and the Army said they chose not to use Microsoft's proprietary 
| software because they didn't want to be beholden to the company. Instead, 
| they chose to develop a Linux-based operating system based on publicly 
| available code.   
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303695.html


French police deal blow to Microsoft

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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft 
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest 
| administrations in the world to make the break.  
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w


Nortel considers Linux desktops for its staff

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| Nortel CIO Steve Bandrowczak, who joined the Canadian telecoms and network 
| equipment vendor last July, said "more and more CIOs are looking at Linux 
| desktop for reasons of TCO" and argued that the technology "is receiving the 
| same level of attention today as when Linux started on servers."    
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http://www.mbtmag.com/articleXml/LN731846314.html

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