In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:03:54 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:30:16 +0100
>> <47674134.CbHQpQj0RX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>> Microsoft too busy to name Linux patents
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | First you get everyone riled claiming open source and Linux
>>> | infringe on your patents, then you won't detail those patents.
>>> | Why? The paperwork.
>>> |
>>> | Yes, Microsoft cited administrative overhead for not detailing
>>> | the 235 Microsoft patents its chief legal counsel recently told
>>> | Forbes exist in Linux and open source.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/24/microsoft_novell_patents/
>>>
>>
>> Paperwork?
>>
>> PAPERWORK???
>>
>> They won't reveal them because of *administrative paperwork????*
>
> If you read between the lines of that paperwork, you'll see:
>
> "Go away, we're too busy (grumble, grumble)."
>
> IOW they are full of it.
>
That, too.
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