An additional note

Posted Oct 12, 2007 14:04 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (guest, #43281)
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 focus on Microsoft is truly misplaced here [...] and one would think that a Microsoft-sponsored troll would have made a point of suing Red Hat and leaving Novell alone.

Yes, good point. The Groklaw article was a bit too focused on a Microsoft conspiracy connection for my taste. When this might be just another case of patent trolling - Microsoft gets sued all the time; no reason why Novell and Red Hat shouldn't either.

Yet, the very recent comment by Ballmer that 'Linux might get sued by patent holders' does seem an odd coincidence. The theory that he might have had foreknowledge of these lawsuits doesn't seem as far-fetched as the theory that Microsoft is actually behind them.