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[News] FSFE Calls Microsoft BS and Asks for Real Interoperability (Not Taxoperability)

  • Subject: [News] FSFE Calls Microsoft BS and Asks for Real Interoperability (Not Taxoperability)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:41:27 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
FSFE calls on Microsoft to release interoperability information without
restrictions

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| Microsoft is the last company that actively promotes the use of software 
| patents to restrict interoperability. This kind of behaviour has no place in 
| an Internet society where all components should connect seamlessly regardless 
| of their origin," says Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation 
| Europe.    
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http://fsfeurope.org/news/2008/news-20080228-01.en.html

"Microsoft: still a bunch of gangsters."

          -- Financial Times Writer, reaction to Microsoft 'open' pledge, 2008

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2008/02/wilcox-watch-bu.html


Related:

Yahoo Patent Troll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE


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


Playing Microsoft Patent Poker 

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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people 
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what 
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent 
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary 
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against 
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.     
| 
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the 
| players.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616

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