On Sunday 13 May 2007, Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:40:17 -0800, John Andersen wrote: > >But I have yet to see Mr Frank Nelson weigh in on this. > > > >And since he claims authority on this subject I'm sure more denials of > >Microsoft's true intent are forthcoming.... > > If MSFT had that much *enforceable* patents, you think they wouldn't > have sued yet?
Why sue and expose your patents to attack fighting something that amounts two tenths of one percent of the desktop market? Especially when they have been successful in scaring large companies away from Linux for years with veiled threats. When Dell/HP/Lenovo start selling significant numbers of Linux PCs you can bet these threats will become more real. Can you imagine the sales of Linux machines to the corporate world surviving even one successful prosecution? To the extent they actually have any case (and I am not saying they do) the smart play would be to wait till significant corporate adoption of Linux has STARTED, sue some company somewhere and watch all the Risk Management bean counters black-ball linux for the next 20 years. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
