Re: Microsoft to sue open source / linux?

On Mon, 14 May 2007 05:40:47 -0700, beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Apparently Microsoft intends to put the thumb screws to open source /
linux. Thoughts? Could MS really stop open source? It seems to me it
might (1)ironically bite them in the ass by bringing awareness of linux
to the spotlight and (2)be like chopping the hair off a hydra, more will
simply spring up (i.e. if MS attacks a big distro for $$$, other distros
will simply surge ahead).

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/

http://news.com.com/Report+Microsoft+says+open+source+violates+235
+patents/2100-1014_3-6183437.html

Whom do you sue, and for what? Go after for example Red Hat/Fedora and
ignore for example Eagle Linux. Red Hat then has a perfectly legitimate
right to go after M$ for discriminating against them.

More importantly, though, is the fact thta M$ is continually a day late
and a dollar short, going back to win 3.11, which was in essence a patch
intended to incorporate networking capability. The latest I'm aware of is
ie 7, which had (ta-da] tabbed browsing, something I had had on my
windows machines and Linux machines a year or more before m$ ever
announced ie7 was even coming out.

This litigation is a dead horse out of the gate.
.

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