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To: Golden Eagle
Sun doesn't own Open Office, you are blabbering more pathetically with each post.

Sun has owned StarOffice since 1999 when they bought it from a German company ("American technology!", oh, wait). Sun open-sourced StarOffice in 2000, calling it OpenOffice. I guess you've never run OpenOffice or you'd have seen the Sun logo there.

You are yet again the one blabbering pathetically out of ignorance.

There is clearly a cross license patent agreement in place between Sun and Microsoft, so Microsoft will not be suing Sun or vice versa.

So why did Microsoft claim 45 patent infringements specifically by OpenOffice? You can't claim infringement if you have an all-encompassing cross-licensing agreement.

Their top lawyer recently announced he was leaving, guess he wasn't as commited as most of those moonbats LOL.

How disingenuous and ignorant of you, but that's expected. He's done with the planning, now he's moving to active legal representation of open source projects as the chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center. He'd probably be on the front lines of the battle if Microsoft sued.

I'd like some retractions for all of the above, but I don't expect to receive them, as that would require honesty from you.

190 posted on 05/16/2007 8:30:33 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Sun has owned StarOffice since 1999...So why did Microsoft claim 45 patent infringements specifically by OpenOffice? You can't claim infringement if you have an all-encompassing cross-licensing agreement.

Obviously because StarOffice is owned by Sun, not OpenOffice. Only a decietful moonbat would keep trying to confuse the 2, even Shadow came clean on that already.

How disingenuous and ignorant of you

LOL no the facts are the Free Software Foundation's chief lawyer just announced he is resigning, as I said. Not only are you a sellout you're an obvious liar to deny it.

191 posted on 05/16/2007 8:43:32 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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