Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 21:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft. During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about Microsoft exerting intellectual property pressure on Novell than anything else.
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RE[2]: The worst is the threats are vague
by Mellin on Mon 19th Feb 2007 00:38
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RE[3]: The worst is the threats are vague
by Windows Sucks on Mon 19th Feb 2007 02:10
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RE[2]: The worst is the threats are vague
by ma_d on Mon 19th Feb 2007 03:50
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Why would they sue big vendors? They'll sue customers, customers of other vendors...
They're not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darl_McBride stupid. Suing big players means going to court, which means setting precedence, which means law.
RE[3]: The worst is the threats are vague
by phoehne on Mon 19th Feb 2007 05:00
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They can put the rest any Samba claims because they do not own license to SMB, IBM does.
Microsoft is not gonna use patents directly against anyone unless they can show that someone blatently used them. They know that if they sued Novell, or Apple (Which uses Samba and other open source tools) or anyone else they would draw too much attention from governments.
So they scare everyone! And like SCO tried to do, they make people PAY.