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Patent troublePatent troublePosted Mar 29, 2006 14:18 UTC (Wed) by pmas (guest, #36804)In reply to: Patent trouble by felixfix Parent article: Conference Report: FOSS Means Business, Belfast (Linux Journal)
Maybe schoolyard bully, but with very good lawyers and marketoids. Don't forget Bill G. studied law in Harward, not compsci. Fortunately he did not graduated. :-)
I would not describe amount of MS patents as "pretty small" :-) I believe it is second after IBM. MS is safe from patent retaliation from any company which produces software except patent trolls. MS has enough patents crosslicensed with anybody.
Also, MS would not be fools to attack any GNU/Linux luminary. They don't have to decapitate free software movement (it is not possible), just hire disposable front companies (like SCO) to attack key projects to make participation prohibitively risky for companies (except big ones like IBM and Sun with own big patent portfolio).
We would hardly know about such patent racketeering - many companies would prefer settle out of court and not risk losing whole business.
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