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451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 28, 2009 0:16 UTC (Sat) by dulles (guest, #45450)
Parent article: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

THE 451 GROUP AND SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE A JOKE

Any group which creates blogs titled "451 CAOS Theory" and signs them "Jay Lyman" is suspect of being spooks or a front company for spooks.

Furthermore, these Microsoft patents are a complete joke, and I can't believe any educated patent official signed off on them. The stupidity of those aged 65+ is incredible.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
-William Shakespeare


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451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 28, 2009 1:21 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Um, dulles, that quote from Henry VI was put in the mouth of a *bad guy*.
The first thing a tyrant does is indeed to kill all the lawyers (or at
least, in these more squeamish times, suborn them).

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 28, 2009 4:41 UTC (Sat) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]

A benevolent dictator would do what?

Tickle them? Tell them lawyer jokes?

Derek

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Mar 2, 2009 17:00 UTC (Mon) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

Benevolent dictator employs all the lawyers writing a new constitution which never gets implemented...

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 28, 2009 10:21 UTC (Sat) by asherringham (subscriber, #33251) [Link]

Nice. Someone called "dulles" worrying about front companies and "spooks"!

Alastair

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