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Linked by David Adams on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by JCooper

Microsoft . . . complained in its annual report that it was facing increasing pressure from open source companies. It claims they are stealing its ideas and benefiting from its intellectual property. "A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and products." Also see analysis at Microsoft Watch.

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Oh noes!!

by ichi on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:47 UTC

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2007-03-06

Competition! How dare they?!

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RE: Oh noes!!

by flanque on Tue 5th Aug 2008 22:04 in reply to "Oh noes!!"

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2005-12-15

There's a difference between competition and being "forced" to open up your intellectual property.

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RE[2]: Oh noes!!

by capricorn_tm on Wed 6th Aug 2008 05:28 in reply to "RE: Oh noes!!"

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2005-12-31

"There's a difference between competition and being "forced" to open up your intellectual property."

So true.

We in Europe call the latter case "legal answer to monopoly".

You should try that sometimes, it is cool

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RE[2]: Oh noes!!

by Soulbender on Wed 6th Aug 2008 05:52 in reply to "RE: Oh noes!!"

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2005-08-18

There's also a difference between being vaguely accused of stealing ideas and having been found guilty in court of stealing ideas. Guess which one is MS and which one is OSS.

Edited 2008-08-06 05:52 UTC

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RE: Oh noes!!

by WorknMan on Tue 5th Aug 2008 22:05 in reply to "Oh noes!!"

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2005-11-13

Haha, yeah.. even for us Windows users, competition is always good

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