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[News] [Linux] Ubuntu Gives Microsoft Racketeering the Finger

  • Subject: [News] [Linux] Ubuntu Gives Microsoft Racketeering the Finger
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:58:51 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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No negotiations with Microsoft in progress

,----[ Quote ]
| We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the 
| threat of unspecified patent infringements.
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/127

Also here:

http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/06/mark_shuttleworth_on_ubuntu_an.html


Recent:

[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]

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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't 
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an 
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make 
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft 
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great 
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a 
| well considered position.
| 
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
| 
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at 
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant 
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win. 
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672

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