DFS wrote:
> Peter K�hlmann wrote:
>> DFS wrote:
>>
>>> Sinister Midget wrote:
>>>> On 2009-03-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>>>>
>>>>> Why Microsoft has chosen to go after Linux now
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> But if any Microsoft employee went to a free software or open
>>>>>> source conference today, I doubt he or she would attract anything
>>>>>> other than hostile glares. By suing GPS device maker TomTom over
>>>>>> alleged violation of patents connected with an implementation of
>>>>>> the Linux kernel any goodwill that Microsoft has built up has
>>>>>> gone down the drain.
>>>>
>>>> Not to mention the last bit of hokey crap Erik had that MICROS~1 was
>>>> just a poor, misunderstood company that we should all love and
>>>> respect because they never have or would sue over patents.
>>>
>>> I'm sure you'll be providing proof of this any day now...
>>
>> Erik has claimed that bullshit often enough.
>
> I'm sure you'll be providing proof of your claim any day now...
>
Proof has already been provided, by several posters.
That you are now in denial mode is entirely your problem
>
>> His claim was always that MS would use patents only as protection,
>> not to start ligitation. As usual, Erik was either completely wrong
>> or outright lying.
>> But then, nobody with half a brain believed his crap then
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Ehrman's Commentary:
(1) Things will get worse before they get better.
(2) Who said things would get better?
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