Posted by: Anonymous
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on May 29, 2008 10:39 PM
May I humbly add that if M$ tries the patent stunts it touted, they could sink spectacularly - the GPLv3 wins, and they know it. The crime is committed. Novell trapped M$. Do you think Steve Ballmer would let this big a "crime against the empire" go unpunished?
His legal eagle - maybe Preston Gates - has told him clearly :
"Steve, you fool! You shouldn't have done the deal. These guys write better legalese than Linus writes Kernel code." So, that's why Microsoft is trying to innovate as a last form of defense. If they do, they survive. If they do not, they perish.
Simple: MS distributed Linux - and there's hard cash and receipts lying around to prove that in court. Case over.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 59.183.43.226] on May 29, 2008 10:39 PMHis legal eagle - maybe Preston Gates - has told him clearly :
"Steve, you fool! You shouldn't have done the deal. These guys write better legalese than Linus writes Kernel code." So, that's why Microsoft is trying to innovate as a last form of defense. If they do, they survive. If they do not, they perish.
Simple: MS distributed Linux - and there's hard cash and receipts lying around to prove that in court. Case over.
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