Re: Micro$oft ba$tards at it again



Gill Bates wrote:

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk
of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties
from distributors and users.

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

Gill Bates

How about the /thousands/ of pieces of code that MS have stolen? Some even
from me! The basis of their "operating system" is almost entirely
"borrowed" from other sources.

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