Groklaw reports that a company called IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat. Groklaw goes into black helicopter mode, trying to find a tie between this IP Innovation thing and Microsoft - and it finds it too. A few ex-Microsoft employees now work at IP Innovation. Do with it as you please.
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Member since:2005-09-27
Member since:2005-10-02
Aaah.. that's what you meant. I can say the same. I defend FLOSS from zealots with anti-MS agenda. At least some of the time. In the debate about the autoupdating of the Windows Update application I defended Microsoft - and got some flak for it (Friendly Fire is quite accurate, unfortunately).
OTOH, Microsoft generally have a problem with its behavior and it is the behavior I attack. Technologically Microsoft is doing better, which again is something I can respect. But this behavior of Ballmer and the bribing in ISO and the violation of Human Rights, and using illegal mafia methods, and bribing governments, and threatening governments (Microsoft threatened Denmark once - which sent Microsoft on the defensive in Denmark - they never managed to do a come back) is simply unacceptable.
Member since:2005-08-11
"Who is defending the Open Source world? The patent troll company? Or Red Hat or Acacia Research Corporation (owner of the patent troll company)? Who is making more damage to the free world than MS itself? "
George Bush and Dick Cheney?
Big Tobacco?
Global Warming?
MS might be a bunch of asshats that ignore antitrust laws and write overpriced mediocre software, but threat to the free world? Tone down the hyperbole a bit, the tinfoil is cutting my scalp.
Member since:2005-10-02
I was merely quoting Hiev. He, and not I, used those words. I merely tried to figure out who he was talking about.
I never claimed MS was a threat to the whole world. Hiev claimed somebody was a bigger threat than MS itself. I asked who this "somebody" was.
Read the posts twice, before you reply.
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2005-10-02
Try again. And this time without grammatical errors that renders your post meaningless.
Mm, Am ?
Who is defending the Open Source world? The patent troll company? Or Red Hat or Acacia Research Corporation (owner of the patent troll company)? Who is making more damage to the free world than MS itself?
Your post in unclear.