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____/ Rex Ballard on Sunday 27 July 2008 13:51 : \____
> On Jul 27, 11:05 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Microsoft's 2002 Plan to Sue Apache
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>> | And then I got stuck with keeping the secret of Microsoft's plans to bring
>> | suit against Open Source developers, for years. All of that time, I felt
>> | that I was being disloyal to my own community. This finally came out after
>> | I was long gone from HP.
>> |
>> | Microsoft backed SCO's lawsuit after releasing this information to HP.
>> `----
>
>> http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/25/46613
>
> This might be the smoking gun IBM needs to collect a few $billion from
> Microsoft related to the SCO lawsuit.
>
>> Another junk patent on abstract and obvious things:
>>
>> Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode!
>>
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>> | Remember the Tree-View mode in many file management applications? It's
>> | shocking to know that this omnipresent feature was patented by Microsoft
>> | back in 1995 (granted in 1997). I'm not very sure about the implications,
>> | though. The patent is so general that it can be related to many things
>> | from tree-mode to virtual filesystems. Check out claim no. 3 of the patent
>> | for the most clear part.
>
> Gee, I wonder if Microsoft included the dired feature of emacs in
> their list of similar prior art. That's been around since the 1970s.
> And Norton Commander, and Midnight Commander,
Yes, this morning I posted "Norton Commander" as an example that I'm aware of
which serves as prior art. I still have Norton Commander executables somewhere
on my system. I've used it since I was a kid, so I still 'carry it around'.
> and OfficePower, and X11
> tree viewers, including xview, file manager, and widgets created by
> HP, Sun, AT&T, IBM, Project Athena, and other tree viewers that have
> been around even longer.
>
> Did Microsoft publish the source code with their patent? Wouldn't it
> be interesting if it turned out that Microsoft's tree view was
> actually a knock-off of a GPL tree viewer?
>
> The problem with attempting to collect money from a competitor for a
> patent, is that it creates the incentive for your competitor to have
> you patent nullified.
>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/1533200&from=rss
>>
>> Yesterday:
>>
>> Microsoft and Apache
>>
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>> | It all sounds good. But Apache is no threat to Microsoft, their projects
>> | run on Microsoft systems and their license doesn't prevent "embrace and
>> | enhance". Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, those are more of a threat. This is,
>> | obviously, a strategic move by Microsoft. I'm trying to convince myself
>> | that we didn't "get owned".
>> `----
>
> Microsoft's solution to the "Apache Problem" was to permit IIS users
> to have unlimited number of concurrent users on a web server that only
> ran IIS. If that same server ran Apache, and ran persistent sessions
> such as e-mail or news-reader, or other "log-on" services, the
> "Concurrent User license was interpreted to mean as many users as were
> concurrently "registered" using cookies or other authentication
> media. The price could be a difference of as much as $20,000 per
> processor.
>
> Of course, the OSS community got around that by making it trivial to
> install Linux in place of Windows. The strategy sorta backfired for
> Microsoft.
>
>> http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/25/46596
>
>> | "There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market
>> | capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs
>> | funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of
>> | cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new
>> | SCO source business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill
>> | for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail."
>> `----
>
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html
>
> Looks like some lawyer could make a fortune in a Class Action lawsuit
> on behalf of small investors who purchased SCO stock. It also looks
> like IBM and Novell will be able to pick over the bones of Microsoft,
> rather than just the bones of SCO.
Groklaw has good documentation of this too. First SCO, then... the rest.
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/25/baystar-acacia-sco-linux-lies/
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