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Re: [News] Microsoft to End up Like SCO, Patents to Lose Their Bubble Value

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft to End up Like SCO, Patents to Lose Their Bubble Value
  • From: Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:51:28 -0500
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  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Sometimes
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:746130
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.

-- 
Mistakes are ofen the stepping stones to utter failure.

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