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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.
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| 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/
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/
Recent:
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/
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.
|
| 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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