Microsoft Mum on Alleged Patents Violated
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| So basically, it comes down to what Microsoft is willing to publicly admit
| their reasoning of the alleged patent violations is ‘because we said so!’
| They will not provide any other evidence (actual patents) because ‘(it) is
| not something that any other company in our industry does today’.
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http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-mum-on-alleged-patents-violated/
Almost everywhere, software patents are not legal anyway, so let Microsoft sing
to self.
Quo Vadis, Patent Laws?
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| Patent law became an issue that is debated not only within small circles, but
| among a broad public. Not only, that software patents could stir one of the
| biggest participation waves in policy decisions on the European level - it is
| probably the first time that plans for patent reforms are debated during
| American presidential primary campaigns. We asked James Babineau, an American
| patent lawyer with Fish & Richardson, that opened an office in Munich a few
| months ago, on the future of the patent systems on both continents.
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27577/1.html
Related:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
|
| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
|
| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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