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Behind the scenes in Microsoft's war against Linux (cnet)

[Posted February 9, 2009 by jake]

Over at cnet, Matt Asay examines the patent deal between Brother and Microsoft. Given that Microsoft doesn't make printers or even printer drivers, the Brother deal is puzzling. "Slowly, behind the scenes, Microsoft continues to try to portray Linux as risky and Microsoft's patent coverage as insurance. Given that the company selling the insurance is also the one threatening a lawsuit, however, Microsoft needs to step very carefully to avoid the 'extortionist' label. I personally believe that it has already crossed the line and needs to get back to competition between products, not lawyers."
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Behind the scenes in Microsoft's war against Linux (cnet)

Posted Feb 15, 2009 18:32 UTC (Sun) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

    Given that Microsoft doesn't make printers or even printer drivers

This is not true. There are printer drivers made by Microsoft, even if most are generic, like the PostScript driver, and probably very old now.

But that doesn't mean they don't need to defend them selfs against others for possible patent threats on this drivers.


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