[Linux Patents] Microsoft takes on the free world

[Derek Broughton]

Conrad Knauer wrote:

> I am so furious at Ballmer & Co. about this; read for example this excerpt
> from http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=52069
> 
> "The software behemoth didn't identify any individual patents that the
> software infringes upon, because that could allow open source developers
> to either challenge the patent or change the software to circumvent the
> patent."
> 
> This is MS starting a new business model of extortion; don't ask
> questions, just pay the protection money and nothing bad bill happen to
> you. I think that this only applies in the US though.
 
It's really not fair to blame MS for starting this business model.  It's
just a repeat of the SCO debacle.  It hasn't helped SCO any, I can't see it
bothering anybody if it's MS.
-- 
derek