Gee, I almost missed this one! On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Thomas Cameron < thomas.came...@camerontech.com> wrote:
> > > I must confess that I'm not very strong on opinions; I'm better on facts. > > Then you should probably try finding some. The drivel below is complete > fantasy. > > > 2006. Microsoft sends a letter to Red Hat pretending that the Linux > > kernel infringes 235 of their patents and that they'll have to pay > > royalties. > > Wrong. > > > Red Hat answers: "Yeah, no problem! Send the patent list." > > Somehow, it seems that Microsoft lost the list. Red Hat, who was eager > > to pay, never received it. > > So wrong as to be laughable. Red Hat has maintained all along that > there is nothing to pay, that Microsoft has never actually provided > evidence of any infringement. Red Hat made crystal clear that it did > not enter into any patent agreement with Microsoft when it did the > cross-certification work last year around running Windows as a guest on > on RHEL and running RHEL as a guest on Windows. > > See Q5 at http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/ > > (...) > > Seriously - next time you pump this crap onto the list, please check > your facts. > > So, Thomas Cameron thinks I really meant Red Hat was waiting for Microsoft's patent infringement list with a check book in hand? Interesting... Red Hat is no place for Olympia Academy style pranksters, just for brain dead serious people, right? Google, you better beware! Thanks for the insight!
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