Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th May 2007 09:42 UTC, submitted by FreeRhino
Microsoft has said it will not sue Linux users with regards to the company's patent claims. "We're not litigating. If we wanted to we would have done so years ago," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP for intellectual property and licensing, in an interview. When asked for a reply regarding the claim of Microsoft that the Linux kernel infringes 42 of its patents, Linus Torvalds replied: "Can you get a list of which ones? Before that, it's just FUD, and there's not a whole lot I can say or do. Is there prior art? Are they trivial and obvious to one skilled in the art? Would we need to work around them? We don't know, because all I've heard so far is just FUD. If MS actually wanted us to not infringe their patents, they'd tell us. Since they don't, that must mean that they actually prefer the FUD."
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whatever it is in the post above, certainly nobody is Europe is jealous about the US, because there isn't anything too great in our view. I cannot think of a single thing that is better in the US. The reason why Americans think they are so great is because they often know so little about the rest of the world.
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Americans have very strange thinking sometimes, it seems, when they think they have a chance to rip people off.
Wow,
Talking about software and this idiot comes out with an Anti-American rant,
Did somebody turn off the jealous European idiot filter?