7 Responses for "Linux: death by patent?"

1. evilKat

   April 1st, 2006 at 10:23 pm

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   Yeah well the Europeans are in no position to speak about it considering the number of times they’ve sued MS for all kinds of ridiculous product bundling stuff. For instance the unbundling of media player from Windowz, which lead beauties such as Windows version N.

2. Danny

   April 2nd, 2006 at 12:42 am

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   It is obvious that Europeans do this not just because it’s right thing to do, but also for their own benefit.

   However, MS does have very agressive way of doing its business, sometimes very unfair.

   Some people are worried and say ‘MS has too much of market share.
   Actually, it is COMPLETE monopoly, what they got going on. and needs to be handled accordingly.

3. asqui

   April 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 am

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   I think that going from:

   “I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I’m not going to comment.”

   to:

   “is it about to go for underhanded tactics such as stop Linux in its tracks with patent lawsuits?”

   Is a bit of a mental leap. You might want to ease up on the coffee intake.

4. TD

   April 24th, 2006 at 11:15 am

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   You already can’t play movies or mp3’s by default on Linux distro’s – so the leap isn’t that far.

5. spiderwebby

   July 6th, 2006 at 5:11 pm

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   for the record:
   wmp sucks ass, it crashes and cant deal with a reasonable sized mp3 collection (get winamp ;)

   you cant copyright the property of the people!!!

   and ms makes soo much money that the fines wont even put a dent in there profits (£60+ per copy ffs! and its not like you have a choice to buy it either)

6. bloomingeek

   September 13th, 2006 at 6:22 pm

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   The biggest threat Microsoft has to open source is not their lawyers, but their money. Eventually MS will do what they did years ago and even today, they will offer open source people lots of money and they will sell out. MS doesn’t have to copyrignt the property of the people, they’ll just buy it.

7. roddes

   October 5th, 2006 at 7:44 pm

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   micro$hite are doing this because there on there last legs,100 hunders of country are refusing to use it and milloins of people are making the jump to gentoo how long theve been held in the drakness by windows,if it wasnt for bill and co then the world of omputing technology and software whould be fare more advanced and not o bloated and shit o they can get moremoney for all there bollocks and get people to buy loads of stupid anti-virus rubbish,how meny virus’es are there on linux?theres only ever been 5 inthe entire histoy of it and they were never in the wiled.i can run gentoo of my mp3 player and thats only 256 mg big.the open source commonunity dosent want money they want to give back what they were given and make good fast 1337 unboalted usefull advanced shit ,not make windows use more resources then it all readdy does