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	Microsoft Patent: Groklaw says nothing to worry about

BigBadWolf

5-15-2007 1:02 PM

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BigBadWolf says:

Read the whole article as I could only clip a lil of it.

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5-15-2007 1:06 PM

BigBadWolf

In the last clip about this, I referred to a similar lawsuit that didn't go so well. Here is a quote from this article that covers that reference;

"6. The Pentagon uses FOSS. Is Microsoft going to sue the Pentagon? If it did, would it win? Even SCO knew better than to follow through with its threats to the Pentagon, and they are dumb as rocks."

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I'm being buried alive in email about the <A href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/">Fortune article</A> about Microsoft's patent saber rattling, which I thought so unimportant I put it in News Picks earlier. Here's why I'm not unduly worried so far. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
1. The recent <A href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070430121005424"><I>KSR</I> decision</A> by the Supreme Court on obviousness means that suing anybody will result in a lot of those patents being thrown out.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
2. FSF has <A href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070501092619462">told us</A> that its lawyers believe that Microsoft has already become a distributor of GPL'd Linux</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
3. Prior art searching is better organized.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
4. What  kind of companies threaten to hurt you if you don't pay them protection money?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
5. To actually sue, Microsoft has to sue its own customers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
6. The Pentagon uses FOSS.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615">
7. This is, to me,  Darl II: "Our precious IP is worth beeelions, and you must honor our sacred intellectual property, which is behind this curtain.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B30F9376-0151-4C0F-8792-44AB2531FE45/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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