On Microsoft's patent claims

Posted May 17, 2007 13:06 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: On Microsoft's patent claims by jengelh
Parent article: On Microsoft's patent claims

Lol, yeah, that's what I thought... This whole thing is pretty cold-war
like. I'm really looking forward to how this unfolds. I don't feel like I
should be really worried, so it might be fun.

On Microsoft's patent claims

Posted May 17, 2007 16:06 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (1 responses)

From the Fortune article:

It's a cold war, and what keeps the peace is the threat of mutually assured destruction: patent Armageddon - an unending series of suits and countersuits that would hobble the industry and its customers.

I didn't make it past page one. I loaded page two, but this big blob of Javascript-powered advertising floated over the article while I was reading it, so I decided to return to the plain text sanity of LWN. :-)

On Microsoft's patent claims

Posted May 17, 2007 16:09 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Or mutually assured nondestruction.

I don't read Fortune (you just gave a very good reason).