Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * John E. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-07 23:38]:
>   
>> Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>>     
>>> ...
>>>
>>> There are no MS patents in code in any GPL software. There never
>>> will be.
>>>       
>> That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of
>> Microsoft management can make.  They have gotten thousands of
>> software patents in the past couple of years, and we don't know what
>> they cover, or, more to the point, what Microsoft will _say_ they
>> cover.
>>     
>
> And Mickey$oft's word is good for ????
>
>   
Once they've got a patent, it has to be challenged.  Remember what
happened with RIM and the Blackberry.  They had to pay about 1/2 billion
for infringing on a patent that was well on it's way to being invalidated.

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