On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:25 -0400, James Knott wrote: > There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent > infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. > > >From the "Suse, M$ and Dell" thread. > > "Nope, I don't need recent cites. Until retracted > > >> Ballmers > >> statments stand as official Microsoft Policy. > >> > >> Therefore the onus is on you to find a retraction. > >> > > > > > You made a statement that by it's nature is deemed > > false if you can not substantiate it. There is no onus > > on me to do anything. If you refuse to substantiate, > > or retract, I can only conclude that you knew the > > statement was false, yet made it anyway, making you a > > liar, and no more to be believed than Mr. Ballmer. > > > > As it now stands, you have no credibility whatever, > > and I see no reason to continue any discussion with > > you, on any matter whatever. > > > > > Well, you might want to read this article and consider the claims > substantiated. > > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
Unfortunately you would need a patent lawyer to go through all of M$' claims. If you've followed any M$ patent discussions over the past few years, you would see that they've been applying for any and everything, including that thing that we know as sudo. Oddly enough Bill Gates is on record as talking about how much WinNT was like Unix. So as far as Ballmer's claims go, take them with as much salt as you can heft. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
