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[News] [Rival] Microsoft extends it's Patent Protection Racket ... with Olympus

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft extends it's Patent Protection Racket ... with Olympus
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:16:04 +0100
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Microsoft Signs Another Patent Deal Amid Calls for Remedies

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|    A group of stories show that Microsoft still exploits a broken
| system, as does Acacia (possible proxy)
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/17/patent-olympus-maskin-acacia/

They just don't give up, do they?

What's wrong with just making good products, selling them, and letting
customers decide whether or not they like it, rather than this lock-in
policy of reselling other companies' software, then enforcing customer
"loyalty" with draconian measures like proprietary formats and patents?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
 18:13:41 up 69 days, 17:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.14

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