Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John E. Perry
[02-04-07 23:38]: Darryl Gregorash wrote:
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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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org