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I'm outraged
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| Every time I read about these 'secret'
| deals I'm outraged. M$ consistently alleges
| patent infringements in Linux without
| exposing the details.
|
| So, first of all, the alleged infringements
| cannot be challenged, tested and validated
| or removed if extant, or kicked into touch
| if not validated. M$ use their (financial)
| muscle to achieve this, intimidation by any
| other name.
|
| Furthermore, I've always understood that
| once a patent infringement is identified
| (alleged) it must be exposed to preclude
| profiteering. Secret deals do not satisfy
| this satisfy this requirement and, are in
| my opinion an abuse of an already
| discredited patent system by a discredited
| monopolist. It seems to me that this is
| just legal chicanery and legal extortion
| (the new version of the twenties protection
| racket).
|
| Ballmer used to speak of Linux as a cancer.
| It seems to me that M$ are now the cancer,
| exhibiting all the symptoms of the
| development, growth and potential
| consequences of a cancer.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,40051060-39001084c-20107274o,00.htm
Microsoft riles open-source advocates with Amazon deal
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| Microsoft has long maintained that free and
| open-source software violates 235 of its
| patents. It's already used this fact to
| coax companies including Novell, HP and
| TomTom into signing patent agreements.
|
| The deal has already stirred up open-source
| advocates. "If the strategy isn't to create
| uncertainty around Linux, it's hard to say
| what it is," said Jim Zemlin, executive
| director of the Linux Foundation.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/355747/microsoft-riles-open-source-advocates-with-amazon-deal
Microsoft/Amazon Deal: Nothing to See Here
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| Companies reach broad cross-license
| agreements all the time, never disclose the
| patents involved and donât often issue
| press releases about it. Amazing how
| despite the âbroad range of products and
| technologyâ covered in their cross license,
| Microsoft chose to focus on Linux and open
| source - distinctly calling it out from
| âproprietary softwareâ and wasnât specific
| about any patents.
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/02/microsoftamazon-deal-nothing-see-here
Linux boosters give a shrug to Amazon's Microsoft patent deal
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/02/linux_backers_shrug_off_microsofts_amazon_patent_deal.html
Microsoft and Amazon Ink 'Confidential' IP Deal
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| Microsoft elicited controversy among open
| source Linux advocates when it announced a
| deal with Novell in November of 2006 over
| IP used in Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise
| Server operating system. In May of 2007,
| Microsoft was accused of spreading fear,
| uncertainty and doubt over Linux licensing
| after a Microsoft executive claimed that
| Linux violated 235 of Microsoft's patents.
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http://rcpmag.com/articles/2010/02/23/microsoft-and-amazon-ink-confidential-ip-deal.aspx
On Amazon and Microsoft
http://www.the-source.com/2010/02/on-amazon-and-microsoft/
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