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[tlug] RE: Shuttleworth Interview at Red Herring (Roger Markus)



Message: 4
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 06:13:05 +0900
From: "Roger Markus" <rogermarku@example.com>
Subject: [tlug] Shuttleworth Interview at Red Herring
To: tlug <tlug@example.com>

Regarding the previously discussed issue of Novell dealing with Microsoft,
Shuttleworth commented (in part):

Microsoft is going to claim that deploying Linux anywhere, unless you pay
Microsoft a patent fee, is a violation of their patent and they haven't
proved that yet. But they certainly seem to be positioning themselves in
such a way that they could do so.

I certainly hope this is not the case. The current stream of judges seems to have little understanding of patent law, and microsoft likes to hire expensive charismatic lawyers. If they were to be so bold as to violate every line of patent and copyright law in existence (which is what such a move would do), then they might actually succeed, and solidify the current trend of making patent law worthless. If a law is never enforced, then it doesn't effectively exist.


Attempting to patent, then sue for patent violation, a group of technologies that have been in use by others for over twenty years is definitely a BAD thing.




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