On Saturday 04 November 2006 08:54, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 AM 11/4/2006 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
That would terminate Novell's licence to the kernel source, the patented material would be removed within a day (just go back to the newest CVS tree before Novell began tinkering), and within a week, Novell and anyone associated with the little scheme would be faced with a multi-billion dollar countersuit.
But who has the resources to litigate the the M$ army of lawyers.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
Finally, someone has hit the ball. All of the responses I've read have assumed that there would be great lawsuits. By whom? I'm sure that Linus doesn't have the money to do that. Perhaps Oracle would try and clear the air, or perhaps IBM--but I doubt that IBM has the interest--after all, they let their own OS/2 die. No, if Microsoft decides to put Linux out of business, then I think we will all be forced to FreeBSD, or to buy Macs. Back up your XP system--when Vista comes out, most of what you have now will probably stop working. By deliberate design! Well, I'm a pessimist. Wouldn't it be nice if I'm wrong, but who has ever trusted M/S?
Hmmm, I guess, Red Flag Linux will survive, with millions of unbothered installations, in a continent and countries where the MS lawyers get nothing but some smiles. Also I guess Europe will give them (the MS paid liars) a real hard time. But I agree, they will try.