Robin Laing wrote: > This is an on-going issue with MS and threatening OSS software but this > is the most direct attack that I have seen yet.
It was roughly three years ago that Microsoft announced that their future business strategy would be to derive income from lawsuits from patent infringement, and not from software licences. Their first target was to be users of Linux. Their second target was to be users of OpenOffice.org. Their third target was to be users of Mozilla. The SCO lawsuit was the first salvo that Microsoft fired in a courtroom. It won't be the last. OOO might infringe upon patents that Microsoft has. However, those patents were incorrectly awarded,because they are _all_ based upon prior art. [The USPTO awarded a patent whose prior art dates to 20,000 BP. They have also issued a patent whose prior art can be found in the Talmud (I suspect that an Orthodox Chabad Jewish Rabbi could point to the passage in the Torah that the passage in the Talmud is based upon.)] xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
