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Scared Microsoft just spreading Linux patent FUD

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Interesting take on the 235 patent infringements argument, suggesting that Microsoft is running scared of open source and spreading FUD in an attempt to bully people into paying some kind of Microsoft Tax.

"Why has Microsoft not filed against those concerned in order to protect its IP and add a few million in damages to its bottom line? After all, the IT business is not exactly know as being shy when it comes to filing for patent infringement, and Microsoft isn’t what one could call backwards in coming forwards regarding litigation to protect itself. Could it have something to do with taking a big stick and little carrot approach to lucrative commercial deals, such as we have seen recently with the Novell ‘we won’t sue you if you jump into bed with us’ pact? Or perhaps it is more a case of running scared from the big stick that the Open Invention Network (OIN), with members such as IBM, Philips and Sony at the helm, has been carving which might just be long enough to poke Microsoft in the eye and heavy enough to do some serious damage in the patent litigation department?"

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Comments (3)

So that's how they've been doing it all these years!

ABCC ·
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No wonder Microsoft is getting hot under the collar and rolling out the bug guns to fire the heavy patent infringement allegation shells.



Bug guns.... Suddenly it's all so obvious...
Bob_Robertson ·
Being a software company, means they also have BugROMs.

Sudden inspiration that Microsoft was being portrayed as the antagonists in El Hazard!

International speakers to discuss the European Patent System

henke54 ·
Brussels, 4 May 2007 -- Over thirty renowned international speakers assemble on 15 and 16 May in Brussels' Metropole Hotel to discuss the future of the European Patent System. Among the topics being discussed are the recently published plans of the EU Commission for a new European patent system, and recent important decisions in the US Supreme Court, and new data and research from the USA about the impact of the patent system on the high-tech sector.

Background information

* Conference dates: 15-16 May 2007 * Location: Metropole Hotel, Brussels * Registration fee: 250.00 EUR excl. VAT, free for journalists and staff of the European institutions

http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/International_speakers_...

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