On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
"Linux violates more than 228 patents, according to a recent report from a research group", Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at the company's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore. "Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO, somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property."
ref: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/11/19/tech.microsoft.linux3.reut/index. html
We don't need to worry about managing Linux IP, but in my view, this is far from an isolated event.
I particularly liked the bit about "nobody ever knows who built the open-source stuff."
Au contraire, I know exactly who built the open-source stuff, and I have no clue whatever who built the MicroSoft stuff. What kind of strange double-talk are they practicing?
-- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Cookbook - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apacheckbk/
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