Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns, Part 9
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> | Microsoft vs. Linux
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> | Microsoft has claimed that Linux violates approximately 235 patents. The
> | company has reportedly ?chosen? to not sue, and the rationale for this
> | choice has been the topic of much speculation. Microsoft has not
> | revealed the details of the violations, including the identifying
> | numbers of the violated patents.
If they tried this trick in EU, they will be up in court immediately
and lyched as happened with SCO.
The laws against black balling other companies are very strict in EU.
> | Lack of merit in the claim is probably the reason most people believe
> | Microsoft has not filed ? in other words, Microsoft is bluffing. Perhaps
> | Microsoft knows that the patents are not enforcible for one reason or
> | another, but it also knows fully that it retains power derived from fear
> | so long as it can make threats that sound credible. If the claim does
> | lack merit, that power would diminish rapidly once a case is brought
> | against the first defendant. Either the patents would be found to be
> | unenforcible (e.g. prior art would be proven), or legal action against
> | one defendant would prompt the Linux community as a whole to adapt
> | quickly. Details of the suit would provide the vital information
> | required to ensure that Linux complies with all patents going forward.
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> | Many Linux supporters and advocates disapproved when Novell and XandrOS
> | succumbed to this fear when they signed their now famous ?peace
> | treaties? with Microsoft.
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> http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/top-10-linux-fud-patterns-part-9/
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> Re-spinning famous quotes: Linux and Cancer.
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> | The strange thing is, replace just one word in the quote and it makes
> | perfect sense to me:
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> | Mono is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense
> | to everything it touches.
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> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/05/04
re-spinning-famous-quotes-linux-and-cancer/
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> Recent:
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> Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks
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> | Some people have complained about its faults for a while; Hubert
> | Figuiere, instead, chose to do something about it in the form of the
> | Gnote utility.
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/331187/
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> Gnote vs Tomboy and complete Mono removal
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> | Has many of you may know, a new project has gotten a lot of attention
> | lately
> | in the Linux world. That project?s name is Gnote. Gnote is an
> | experimental port of Tomboy to C++, it?s the same note taking
> | application, minus things not done yet, including panel applet, boatload
> | of addins and synchronization, but just be patient and you will have a
> | full port of Tomboy soon.
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> | Today I?ve decided to give Gnote a try and install it on my system, I
> | used the unofficial Gnote PPA for Ubuntu provided by Vadim Peretokin, at
> | the moment it still hasn?t been updated to the latest version of Gnote,
> | but I?m sure it will soon. My first impressions were good, it loaded a
> | lot faster than Tomboy, 2.324 seconds versus the 0.280 seconds of Gnote
> | and it was also three times lighter than Tomboy, maybe because of all of
> | the Mono bloat that Tomboy depends on?
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> http://trmanco.com/2009/05/01
gnote-vs-tomboy-and-complete-mono-removal.trm
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