> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12896/53/ > Microsoft and Linspire have tied the knot with a deal aimed at improving > interoperability between Windows and the Linux distribution while also > offering Linspire users the chance to buy into "patent covenants" - [snip]
excellent! only thing: they need to "buy-out" more than 400 distributions of gnulinux, and then will have to figure out how to tackle *bsd and a few others as well, before they actually get somewhere. and in the meantime, who knows, the conquerors may just find themselves conquered by their own prisoners of war. so glad i attended eben moglen's in-depth talk the other day with his insights on this issue. history of the computer industry, as written in the future: lawyers defeat lawyers. no technology here. move on to the next century. :-) niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
