If you can't beat 'em
Jeff Smith
jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Sat Nov 20 15:52:01 EST 2004
Actually, they were attempting to quote from a report by
OSRM - the Open Source Risk Management folks who sell
indemnification for Linux. Of course, being MS, they got
it wrong. The study showed that there are 283 UNTESTED
patents IN THE US (only the US recognizes them) that could
be used to go after Linux. I say untested because the
majority of SW patents fail when challenged, and none of
these have been challenged in court. Of those that have
been challenged in court and been upheld 0 (that's ZERO)
can be used to challenge Linux.
Of course, MS manages to get the # wrong, the risk wrong,
everything else. You expected the truth from them?
jeff
Original Message:
Subject: Re: If you can't beat 'em...
From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton at chrisbrenton.org>
To: GNHLUG Discussion <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:16:21 -0500
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:39, Ted Roche wrote:
>
> It's good to hear that Microsoft is giving up on trying
to diss FOSS
or
> compete with unfair comparisons, and is just threatening
their
> customers.
Ya, my favorite quote:
"Linux violates more than 228 patents, according to a
recent report
from
a research group"
Ohhhh, a _research group_. Well that sounds authoritative.
I wonder how
much MS paid for that study. ;-)
Chris
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