The only real potential danger is that if MS were able to enforce it's patents they might go to companies and say you are in violation of our patent. The licensing fee is $100 million or whatever MS wants to charge.
--- "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:54 -0800, Andrew Lentvorski > wrote: > > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > IBM is a friend of IBM, and that's it. > > > > Agreed. If IBM could make more money torpedoing > Linux, they would do so. > > > > Linux almost certainly infringes on some Microsoft > patents, somewhere. > > The only thing that keeps Microsoft in check is > the fear that if they > > start exercising too much aggression, places other > than the US will slap > > them down. > > If there were a serious threat to Linux, I believe > companies like Akamai > - who is *heavily* invested in Linux servers with > tens of thousands of > them - would jump into the fray. Interestingly, if > not for Linux (and > Akamai), Microslut would have no web presence at all > (nore would the > FBI, Whitehouse, CNN, etc., etc., etc. > > So, an attack on Linux by nearly any given business > is an attack on the > business itself as it would directly effect the > Internet the way we know > it today. Note also that many of the possibly > patents, etc. that > Microslut might go after are most likely used by > other UNIX systems that > are also used to drive the Internet as well as a lot > of networking > hardware. > > PGA > -- > The information contained in this e-mail message is > confidential, > intended only for the use of the individual or > entity named above. If > the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient, or the employee > or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended > recipient, you are > hereby notified that any review, dissemination, > distribution or copying > of this communication is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this > e-mail in error, please contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Paul G. Allen > Software Engineer BSIT/SE > Quake Global, Inc. > 858-277-7290 x285 > > > -- > KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
