Frankly anybody can write an operating system. Since a patent is on actual code and your code will be different without doubt, home free. Is it possible to disable 95% of this Windows stuff so the computer boots up in less than a cigarette and cup of coffee?
Get more random access memory (RAM). If running Vista, a notorious memory hog, make that at least 4 GB of RAM. Or install Linux and pay the bribes that Microsoft demands of you.
This article states that Microsoft is claiming patent infringement. Given the broad brush that corporations used to develop their patent portfolios beginning in the early 1990’s, I would suspect that MS can probably identify a large number of patent infringements. The fact that they are challenging “open source” just makes their job easier.
Huh? Maybe you are thinking of copyright?
A software patent is not on actual code. For example, the Unisys patent on the LZW compression algorthim (which has expired) described the algorithm and provided code in Fortran. But if you rewrote it in C, you would still have had to license it from Unisys because it was the algorthim that was patented, not the bits.
The net result implied, of course, was that a company can get protected status for ... a series of keystrokes! The originality of the code apparently constitutes no defense.
I'm all for patenting new, real software inventions. But unfortunately, most software patents are B.S. They are not "inventions" per se.
Some software patents are bogused because they patent something which has already been invented by someone else. This is patent poaching. But the patent approval process collapsed under both ignorance of the software industry and the sheer number of patent applications.
Now everyone who has anything to do with creating software is patenting everything it can, so as to protect itself from patent poachers.
Yes, but writing decent code is beyond the capabilities of Microsoft India.
Cheers!