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[News] Sam Ramji Pinned to the Wall for Microsoft's Attacks on Freedom

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How To Take (Yet Another) Beating

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| Most of the pummeling sent Microsoft's way amounts to two complaints levied 
| against them constantly in the past: 1) you can't talk out of both sides of 
| your mouth about open source and open standards, and 2) stop using patents as 
| a cudgel to keep other people in line.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Complaint #2 keeps coming back into the limelight, pretty much whenever the 
| words "Microsoft", "patent" or "intellectual property" (pick any two) are 
| breathed in the same sentence. My feelings about software patents have been 
| deeply mixed for a long time, trending towards negative. The more I see of 
| how little protection they actually afford, and how much of a hassle they end 
| up being for everyone involved -- including the very people who are supposed 
| to benefit from them -- the less I'm convinced they need to be defended so 
| aggressively. They create more problems than they solve, even though in the 
| short run it looks like you're winning.        
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/how_to_take_yet.html


Related:

Microsoft: Not worried about open source patents

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| One of the funniest exchanges between Ramji and the OSCON audience was the
| following:
|
|     "Do you feel like you're screwing a porcupine and you're one prick
|     against thousands?" the OSCON audience member asked Ramji.
|
| Ramji politely replied:
|
|     "It takes time to change and I knew that I'd be unpopular when I took
|     this job...
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/microsoft-not-worried-about-op.html
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