jonathon wrote:
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
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It seems that Microsoft's lawyers should be prosecuted for filing
frivolous lawsuits.
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