I'd rather see M$ get slapped down BIG TIME on this one. How will they
ever prove "We had it first" against a system whose hstory predates M$ ???
Thomas Kern wrote:
Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use
computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
Good luck on your interview.
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:29:28 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This almost sounds like in 1999 when someone claimed a patent on a date
conversion routine, and wanted to charge anyone who was converting dates
in their Y2K efforts. I'm sure MS has very good lawyers working on this, but
how are you going to sue millions of LInux users. The people that work on the
Linux Kernel don't profit on any of it, although IBM and many of the other
software companies make software for Linux that they sell for profit. This
should be very interesting.
If on the off chance that MS would win, how would that affect z/OS users? I
can see that it might help. People might get pissed off enough at MS, and
convert to a mainframe. (Oh well, its a good thought).
I'm off to a job interview, and then I have to clean my Dodgeville house, so I
won't be reading the list till tomorrow evening.
Eric Bielefeld
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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