[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay rolyalties

[Sean Warburton]

Microsoft innovates; just watch this movie, and all your speculations will
be put to rest...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM


On 5/15/07, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The sign of a fledgling Microsoft?  Why would they bring up a tactic like
> this now?  Perhaps
> a lukewarm response to Vista, the new Dell/Ubuntu deal, and the increased
> talk of Linux amongst
> big business?  Hell, the Japanese govt. just said that they were moving
> open-source...
>
> Microsoft is running scared...It's the only real reason to start suing -
> they've become the company that
> they bankrolled into suing IBM (SCO).  And what happens when IBM brings
> down
> the patent hammer
> on MS?  The day MS starts suing is the day that computing stops; both
> companies have piles of
> patents on...everything.  We may see software patent reform once and for
> all...
>
> Is this all they've got?  They can't innovate, so they've gotta come hunt
> us
> down?
>
>   - Chris
>
>
> On 5/15/07, Shawn LaMaster <shawn at lamaster.com> wrote:
> >
> > Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay
> > royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.
> >
> > In an interview with Fortune magazine, Brad Smith, Microsoft's
> > general counsel, and Horacio Gutierrez, the company's vice president
> > of intellectual property and licensing, said open source software,
> > including Linux, violates 235 Microsoft patents. And Microsoft wants
> > distributors and users of open source software to start paying
> > royalties for these alleged violations.
> >
> > "This is not a case of some accidental, unknowing infringement.
> > ...There is an overwhelming number of patents being infringed,"
> > Gutierrez said.
> >
> > http://www.networkworld.com:80/news/2007/051407-microsoft-demands-
> > royalties-for-open-source.html?nlhtspec=051407specialalert1&
> >
> >
> > Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy
> > that sustained him through temporary bouts of joy.
> >         - William Butler Yeats
> >
> >
> >
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> Chris Robbins
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