Ubuntu here I come!
Seeing open source has driven most of the innovation in "need for greed" world (M$ invented nearly nothing, and stole or reverse engineered almost everything) I see a pretty big war on the horizon.
Microsoft never wants to actually compete on merit.
Their monopoly is built on the fact that the PC user community was short-sighted enough to let MS proprietary "standards" become de facto public standards.
Now MS wants to use the threat of patent enforcement to deter Linux. What a crock! I'll bet MS "borrowed" far more from unix than vice versa. Now they want to play this little game where they claim IP infringement but refuse to say what the infringing code is. Baloney! That's comparable to a shop owner accusing you of shoplifting but refusing to say what it is you actually shoplifted!
The whole idea that "free" software is somehow "anti-capitalistic" is nonsense, by the way -- unless you think that breathing air without paying for it is anti-capitalistic too!
If you think software sucks now, just wait until what's available depends completely on who has the best lawyers.
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Did somebody mention Jokelaw? We don't need their kind stinking up the place.
Linux has ripped off concepts from Windows and someday that's going to come back to haunt them. I can't get anymore specific than that, because I'm not very well informed. I'm just pulling crap out of my *ss, like usual.
I just wish I could get Steve Balmer in a room with Linus Torvalds so Steve could pitch a chair at the little commie.
Leftists like Stallman who want to just do away with all laws regarding intellectual property can whine all they want, but those laws aren't going away. "Copyleft" will never succeed "copyright", at least not here in the US, although the mad Russians of the world probably feel differently.