John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:24:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Patent Deals With Microsoft Mean Death To Linux?
>>
>>,----[ Quote ]
>>| These companies were given access to thousands of man hours worth of code and
>>| software, and they repay this kindness by outwardly betraying the license
>>| that made this possible for them in the first place.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Linux users are fine leaving things alone. Microsoft, on the other hand, sees
>>| things from a completely different perspective.
>>`----
>>
>>http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7966
>
> You would have to completely insane or terribly desperate to launch
> a patent war. It would be incredibly expensive and it would expose
> Microsoft's bluff to the world.
>
> And who would you sue ? Over which patents ? In which country ?
> ...what a tangled mess it would be.
>
It's just another round in the FUD war. I think we can see that GPLv3
is the first free software licence specifically written to combat FUD as
a business-model supporting tactic. What our proprietary software
zealots seem to constantly ignore is that if you don't build your
business model on lock-in, then you don't need to be dishonest to your
customers.
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