Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

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Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

Post by dragonbite » 2007/10/09 18:55:12

Sounds like the drums of war are beginning, either that or Ballmer is being a saber-rattling again!?

[url=http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent]http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent[/url]

Wish somebody would just shut Ballmer up! Maybe sue Microsoft for slander or something *guilty!* :hammer:

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Re: Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

Post by toracat » 2007/10/09 19:10:22

Some additional info and people's comments are found at Groklaw

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071008205138925

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Re: Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

Post by dragonbite » 2007/10/09 19:34:13

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toracat wrote:
Some additional info and people's comments are found at Groklaw

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071008205138925[/quote]Thanks. That's a good summary and insightful. I never thought Microsoft would limit it to RedHat as the article leads you to believe, but rather to all FOSS!

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Re: Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

Post by voltrem » 2008/05/01 21:51:13

any progress about that issue? are they insisting on being a pain in the ...?

[quote]That Microsoft world is a nightmare, and the idea of FOSS innovation happening on top of Windows is exactly what I don't want. I want to use non-Microsoft software. I want to be able to use non-Microsoft software. That is my free-will choice. And I want the marketplace to provide me with a choice. Microsoft wants every software sale in the world to be a Microsoft sale. I think they call that monopoly.[/quote]

I totally agree with the author. And I hate the manufacturers making you "have to buy" a windoze cd along with their product. I understand that they're trying to prevent the usage of unlicensed software but what if I dont wanna use windoze? Where is my free will of choice?

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