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An additional noteAn additional notePosted Oct 12, 2007 22:14 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: An additional note by corbet Parent article: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)
A quick scan of the list of patent lawsuits linked by Groklaw shows that in the same period (basically seems to be early October) there were at least two or three patent lawsuits filed against Microsoft in the same court.
So far as I know that's not unusual. Most Microsoft products attract a large number of patent lawsuits. Microsoft has such a range of products in a wide variety of fields that even if they were not so prominent and so obviously wealthy they would undoubtedly attract many such lawsuits.
In theory Microsoft is pro-reform as far as software patents are concerned rather than pro-patent per se. But their lawyers (who would lose their jobs if Microsoft didn't have this endless series of lawsuits to fight) seem to get to write policy here, which is a serious mistake regardless of what you personally think about patent policy. The fox is running the hen house, and it may cost Microsoft more than it ever costs Red Hat or Novell.
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