An additional note

An additional note

Posted Oct 12, 2007 19:48 UTC (Fri) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: An additional note by corbet
Parent article: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)

Perhaps you're being a bit too fair here? The two MS guys joining the company recently .... stink. Following the money trail is an outstanding idea, regardless of what comes from it. There are too many people that have used convenient front businesses to push out the competition, historically, to not check. See, e.g., the scheme Thomas J Watson Senior was involved in prior to IBM (see Wikipedia).

Incidentally, a good analysis of this patent can still be done independent of the money trail anyhow. It's fine to follow both leads. Just the patent sounds like it might need a bit more time.

This one stinks. It may not even be that M$ cares about the FULL potential impact of this. It's enough that they'll aid ina scheme to expose their competition to the same nasty schemes that they've been exposed to for a while now. It makes perfect business sense.

The fact that there is that little antitrust issue agains M$ may come back to bite them here, though. I hope. The involvement of a lot of ex-M$ guy that joined the patent troll very recently should be damaging to M$, whether intended or not.

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