Open source advocates brush off Microsoft patent threats
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| Microsoft's threat to seek patent royalties from open source software
| users and vendors is so far provoking more scorn than fear.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/supplier-relations/news/index.cfm?newsid=3011
Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats
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| Rather than scare companies away from using or distributing open
| source, the general consensus is that the company's threats of
| litigation -- outlined in statements Microsoft executives
| including CEO Steve Ballmer made to Fortune magazine this
| week -- prove it's the software giant who is afraid of the
| competitive threat Linux and open-source software pose to
| its business long term.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=672245206&rid=-50
Notice that not only developers are annoyed yet unafraid. Customers are also
disconcerned. Microsoft is only driving away its own customers. It's doing a
favour to Linux and Free software.
Microsoft adds it up
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| What will Microsoft do about these perceived offenses? Will they go
| after companies such as Red Hat Inc.? Open source users themselves?
| Or, as other speculate, is Ballmer bluffing, offering vague threats
| in lieu of actual evidence, or as a way to spook other open source
| companies into signing a similar agreement inked by Novell?
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http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/44280.html
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