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[News] Microsoft Uses Software Patent Racketeering to Harm GNU/Linux Business

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Uses Software Patent Racketeering to Harm GNU/Linux Business
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:32:18 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Microsoft and Patents 

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| Microsoft initially started this patent 
| crusade about 3 years ago, and after the 
| initial wave of accusations the Redmond 
| giant seemed to slumber. All was well for a 
| while. Sure, we all felt as though Novell, 
| Xandros, and Linspire had sold their souls 
| to Satan, but we didn't really care. There 
| were no real effects of the deals seen. 
| Microsoft claimed that 235 patents had been 
| violated, but to date they have yet to say 
| who violated those patents and in what way. 
| To me, this seems like a massive FUD 
| campaign.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Rather recently in the Microsoft crusade 
| against Linux, Microsoft approached Amazon. 
| The Kindle's embedded OS is Linux based, OH 
| NOES! This leaves a striking pattern. As 
| soon as you start making money with Linux 
| software, and Microsoft doesn't get your 
| money they attack you in some way. Amazon 
| also paid Microsoft some money during the 
| patent exchange, which raises my 
| suspicions... If this kind of treatment 
| continues, I hope that someone will have 
| the ire to stand against Microsoft at some 
| point, and demand that the accusations and 
| the specifics of the violations and 
| violators be made public. How can anyone 
| comply if the information isn't made 
| public? 
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/04/microsoft-and-patents.html

Ballnux:

First Pic of Alleged Samsung Moment 2 Arrives

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/06/pic-alleged-samsung-moment-2-arrives/

Also Ballnux:

LG LU2300 Details Emerging

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| Details are starting to emerge (translated) about a forthcoming
| Android-based smart phone from South Korean handset maker LG.  
| From the sounds of it, the LU2300 will fit well with some of 
| the newer "super" phones like the Nexus One and Motorola Droid.
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http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/06/lg-lu2300-details-emerging/
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