-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 May 2007 17:22, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > 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. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad > >> Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, > >> while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a > >> further 65. OpenOffice.org is accused of infringing 45, along with > >> 83 more in other free and open-source programs, according to > >> Fortune. More info at > >> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6183437.html > > > > This isnt really anything important - its the usual banter that has > > been carrying on for a long time. Nothing really specific to worry > > about there. > > Actually, there might be a pattern here. The Novell pact, and then > this. Seems linked to me. M$'s pact with Novell, gives Novell > customers "immunity" to exactly this kind of attacks to their > business.
Microsux's semi-annual FUD-fest against the FLOSS community and users. Each time they announce some new breakthrough against FLOSS (either directly or via proxies like Novell and SCO) they get some press coverage, the Fortune 500 shake a bit in their collective trousers, 3.725 users leave the FLOSS community and buy Vistula, and then things get back to normal. Await the next installment -- in September? MS will not take patents against FLOSS to the courts in the foreseeable future since even if they win the case in the USA -- which too is looking more doubtful by the minute -- they'll still bring the non-US (primarily European) market into a head-on software is patentable vs non-patentable war, and the chances are that software patents will get a final rejection in the EU. If that happens, any hope that MS may have had of taking this patent war worldwide will be over, and they will have to curl up in the US (if they win there), and forget about the rest of the world. Are they willing to take that risk? Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSFlPyWjQ78xo0X8RArcoAJ993KBmrICmLTvE65D4Gx3kok7maACfeyuM NHSFq6t+jsRtKkzXGZHvDTw= =diZW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
