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Microsoft's Cold War Against Linux
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| Microsoft is open source's biggest threat. It paid SCO money to sue Linux
| companies. It voiced the message that Linux is used for illegal software
| activities, uneducated programmers, a cancer that will destroy software
| innovation and has a high ROI (Return on Investment). It has spread rumors
| about software patents affecting the Linux kernel, calling open source users
| communists and claiming that Linux is unstable.
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http://linuxdesktopnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/microsoft-sues-linux-vendor.html
Recent:
Microsoft: Not much to show for 10,000 patents
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| Maybe. But innovation is what hasn't actually done Microsoft much good, at
| least as measured in terms of new product lines that generate material
| amounts of revenue for the company. It still gathers the vast majority of its
| revenue from Windows and Office, two product lines that have only
| incrementally improved (or, in the case of Vista, degenerated) over the past
| decade or two.
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| [...]
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| Companies and people buy products, not patents. I'm sure that 10,000 patents
| is a nice symbolic achievement for Microsoft, but 10,000 products would be
| better.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10160235-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5
Patent system 'stifling science'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
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