For Microsoft to claim patent violations and then to refuse to identify them is the height of arrogance. This amounts to nothing less than corporate blackmail
It's hard to see how the Linux interface violates the MS patents when they originally licensed it from Xerox Parc. Basically Microsoft's theory is that everything that they extend and embrace becomes their intellectual property. Microsoft incoporated code from IBM's Lan Server and then claimed it was their IP. Microsoft has stated that they would prefer to license than litigate it's patent disputes with OSS and Linux. So basically MS is hoping to generate enough FUD to coerce companies into licensing OSS and Linux software. Hopefully the EU will show more guts than the DOJ has. ----- Original Message ---- From: Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:31:05 PM Subject: Re: Three Scenarios For How Microsoft's Open Source Threat Could End -- Microsoft Takes On Open Source On 5/18/07, Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199602086 ) Interesting scenarios, but remarkably parochial. They completely ignore the ROW (Rest of the World.) Even The EU, which has been a champion of the stupidity called "software patents" is unlikely to go along with Microsoft. What happens in the USA may well be a sideshow in a much larger global battle. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
