Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread vivek khurana
--- Lokesh Bhog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lokesh Bhog wrote: In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, And who knew that the answer to everything was in the kernel ? :) - -- You see things; and you say

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lokesh Bhog wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lokesh Bhog wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Karanbir Singh wrote: Lokesh Bhog wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 May 2007 17:22, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Lokesh Bhog wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an

[ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-13 Thread Lokesh Bhog
Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 14-May-07, at 9:38 AM, Lokesh Bhog wrote: Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates