Microsoft want two things. They want to make people afraid to use GNU+Linux, and they want to get money from the people who do use GNU+Linux.
They worked together with Novell to find a way to get money from people who use GNU+Linux. Today, customers of Novell are paying Microsoft. Microsoft would probably like to expand this to include customers of all the other big GNU+Linux companies, but GPLv3 will probably stop this when it is finished. Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well except lawyers who > make a living off lawsuits. :)) It's interesting to note that there are no patents on ways of filing lawsuits or ways of arguing court cases :) Patent lawyers want patents to exist for everyone else's work, but not for there's. > i forget... what kind of patent it is--- but not all patents are > upheld. A lot of patents are not upheld. When a patent office approves an application, that just means that some government employee thinks that the application looks correct. The real test is when the patent goes to a court case where it will be examined by a judge. The judge might uphold it, or might not. ...the problem is that court cases are very expensive, so this system is ok for big companies, but bad for the general public. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
