1 posted on
05/15/2007 10:40:15 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ..
OSS PING
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Score Card
Linux Kernel - 42
GUI (KDE,..) - 65
E-Mail Progs - 15
'Other" ------ 68
OpenOffice --- 45
2 posted on
05/15/2007 10:42:06 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: N3WBI3
I’ve learned my lesson, seduced by some cool tool and betting against Microsoft is very high risk.
3 posted on
05/15/2007 10:50:30 AM PDT by
elfman2
(An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
To: N3WBI3
Some live links to various copies of this story:
5 posted on
05/15/2007 11:16:47 AM PDT by
ThePythonicCow
(The Greens steal in fear of pollution, The Reds in fear of greed; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
To: N3WBI3
It seems to me that the source of this elaboration of what patents Microsoft is claiming are infringed comes from a Fortune interview reported in this article:
CNNMoney.com article of yesterday, May 15, 2007.
A couple lines from it:
[Microsoft licensing chief Horacio] Gutierrez sat down with Fortune refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them. But he does break down the total number allegedly violated - 235 - into categories. He says that the Linux kernel ... violates 42 Microsoft patents ... [the GUI] 65 ... Open Office ... 45 more. E-mail programs ... 15 ... other ... 68.
8 posted on
05/15/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by
ThePythonicCow
(The Greens steal in fear of pollution, The Reds in fear of greed; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
To: N3WBI3
To: N3WBI3
"You would be wise to listen to the customers you're threatening to sue - they can leave you, especially if you give them motivation," [Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan] Schwartz tells Microsoft. "Remember, they wouldn't be motivated unless your products were somehow missing the mark."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/schwartz_blog_microsoft/
To: N3WBI3
They showed that they are not going to enforce the patent, so they are now null and void. If you don’t enforce it you lose it.
17 posted on
05/15/2007 7:15:25 PM PDT by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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