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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Salesforce.com Sues Microsoft Over Cloud Software
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>> | Salesforce.com Inc. filed a patent-
>> | infringement lawsuit today against
>> | Microsoft Corp., escalating a fight between
>> | the two companies over the growing market
>> | for cloud-computing software.
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>> http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-25/salesforce-com-sues-microsoft-
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> This is massive!!!
> It looks like anything copied over from .Net like Mono could
> also be infringing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I bet the mono developers are quaking in their boots to
> see if they need to delete all their stuff and go back
> to using a decent developer platform like Linux with gcc,
> mysql, sqlite3, gambas, php and shell scripts.
Oracle has no interest in leaving Java exposed to lawsuits and it has
OIN's patent portfolio. Seems like it's obvious what programmers should
choose...
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