Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2224 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>> * John E. Perry <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx> [02-04-07 23:38]:
>>   
>>> Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>>>     
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> There are no MS patents in code in any GPL software. There never
>>>> will be.
>>>>       
>>> That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of
>>> Microsoft management can make.  They have gotten thousands of
>>> software patents in the past couple of years, and we don't know what
>>> they cover, or, more to the point, what Microsoft will _say_ they
>>> cover.
>>>     
>> And Mickey$oft's word is good for ????
>>
>>   
> Once they've got a patent, it has to be challenged.  Remember what
> happened with RIM and the Blackberry.  They had to pay about 1/2 billion
> for infringing on a patent that was well on it's way to being invalidated.
> 

Thanks, James.  Good to see there's someone else here who doesn't have
his head in the sand.

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John Perry
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