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Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
CNET News ^ | 4/14/07 | Stephen Shankland

Posted on 05/14/2007 7:28:15 PM PDT by mylife

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To: muawiyah

This whole thing was a tad more scary before SCO tried this play book. If SCO *UNIX* cant produce anything in Linux that is their IP I doubt MS has nearly as much as they are advertising. Like SCO they are keeping the patents being infringed upon secret because

1) Upon review they would get dumped
2) This is more a tactic to get cross licensing and nothing more

Frankly IMHO until they fix the mess at the patent office all of these cases are joke because such a huge number of patents are not worth the paper they wre granted on.


81 posted on 05/15/2007 7:40:00 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: quietolong
Who here remembers WordStar.

I do. Yuk. And Yuk to anything that came from Ashton-Hate. Multimate, whatever the heck they called that abysmal spreadsheet, etc.

82 posted on 05/15/2007 9:08:33 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: ShadowAce

IB4GE


83 posted on 05/15/2007 9:17:07 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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