> On 14-May-07, at 9:38 AM, Lokesh Bhog wrote: > > > Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more > > than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published > > Sunday.
[snip] Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and when i did sirsasana this morning I violated a patent Exactly. MS recent patent feeding frenzy was presumably with the aim of tearing FLOSS to shreds with this kind of attack. Sure, the FLOSS community may be able to rewrite all the currently disputed code. But this is a great way to hobble its development to a snail's pace and remove FLOSS from serious future consideration. With MS's war chest, I'd expect them to put in an unending series of further charges if linux ever gets anywhere near clearing up the currently disputed code. I think it's a very serious threat, that doesn't have really viable technical fixes. An illustrative article about a similar threatened strategy that caused Sun to cave in against IBM is at: http://members.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html PJ “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is." - Yoda _______________________________________________ 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/
