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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