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Red Hat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eWeek)
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently gave a speech in which he said
that Linux users needed to compensate Microsoft for patent infringement.
Of course requests to "show us the patents" remain unanswered. This vnunet
article and this Linux-Watch
article are just two of the many articles we've seen.
eWeek takes a look at the responses from Red Hat and the Linux Foundation. "In a scathing response to Ballmer's remarks, Red Hat's IP team said the reality is that the community development approach of free and open-source code represents a healthy development paradigm, which, when viewed from the perspective of pending lawsuits related to intellectual property, is at least as safe as proprietary software. "We are also aware of no patent lawsuit against Linux. Ever. Anywhere," the team said in a blog posting." (Log in to post comments)
Red Hat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eWeek) Posted Oct 11, 2007 1:02 UTC (Thu) by grouch (subscriber, #27289) [Link] That "blog posting" was May 14, 2007. I doubt that it was in response to Ballmer's latest blatherings. ;)See Microsoft's Ballmer Reportedly Threatens Red Hat - Updated 3Xs for Groklaw's report on the incident.
Red Hat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eWeek) Posted Oct 13, 2007 16:12 UTC (Sat) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link] "We are also aware of no patent lawsuit against Linux. Ever. Anywhere."Oops. Reality would appear to have caught up with them.
Red Hat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eWeek) Posted Oct 24, 2007 9:21 UTC (Wed) by alext (guest, #7589) [Link] At its most simple it is almost comic 1/ Microsoft say pay us for using our stuff 2/ they won't show you what they want paying for 3/ every Linux user is entitled to know because we are all according to them infringers. Strikes me only a fool pays for something they have never seen. Every other person could turn around to Microsoft in turn and say "you owe us for using our technology, no we won't tell you what it is just pay up!"
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