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The Beat Of The TomTom, Pt. 2
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| When I spoke to Keith Bergelt of the Open Invention Network, he was far more
| directly critical: "The message that Microsoft has been putting out over the
| last year to 18 months, thanks to their presence in open source forums and
| Sam Ramji, is that a lot of that effort is not more than rhetoric, and that
| their behaviors are the same. The inclusion of patents and the targeting of
| Linux, whether it's by design or not, is provocative.
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| "And it's unfortunate, because any of the work they were doing to develop a
| better manner of comportment and integration within the community will be for
| naught. It also solidifies the resolve of the community to support Linux
| users and the rights of them to use Lx. Irrespective of whether TomTom has
| other [patent] issues, this is a separate action. This action, by dragging in
| those Linux-targeting patents, is just more of Microsoft being Microsoft, and
| underscores how far they still have to go to be accepted by the open source
| community."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/the_beat_of_the.html
A criminal stays a criminal. Microsoft executives are still jail-worthy for the
crimes they have committed and political corruption that enables this.
Related:
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
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| The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and
| unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local
| executive for Sun Microsystems.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-exec-accuses-Microsoft-of-patent-terrorism-/0,130061733,339280437,00.htm
Microsoft, the art of Corporate Terrorism.
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| Microsoft, no longer the technological leader in the Computer Desktop
| market, is taking on a terrorist role in its attempt remain in power
| at all costs. (see the link to the CNN story below)
|
| The tactic is intended to frighten current, and would be, free
| software users away from products that Microsoft just can't compete
| with. It's not a new tactic, but for the first time desperation is
| beginning to show.
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http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Microsoft_Terrorism
Convicted Monopolist Terrorizes Software Industry
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| That headline is designed to grab your attention. Sensationalistic as
| it may be, it also happens to be true, if what you mean by 'terrorize'
| is to provoke fear.
|
| If you've been following the presidential race in the United States,
| you know the present crop of candidates have been exploiting the fear
| of the American people as they never have before in the history of
| the country.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/ms_threats.html
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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