On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:20, M Harris wrote: > Well, the other shoe has dropped. The leopard in Redmond is really > desperate...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=436 "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been telling anyone who'd listen for several months now that Microsoft did the deal with Novell in order to provide customers worried about potential patent infringements by open-source software on Microsoft's products a way to assure that they wouldn't be sued by Microsoft." "So what gives? A number of us have been calling for several months for Microsoft to itemize which open-source patents the company believes Linux and other open-source software to infringing upon. My guess? Microsoft must be putting pressure on other open-source software vendors to follow Novell's lead and sign covenants not to sue that Ballmer can point to when he wants to scare customers away from open source. " ---Mary Jo Foley BINGO--- Mary Jo -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
