[geeks] Microsoft responds to question about their IP used in Linux

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 @ 19:46 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/76270/index.html
> > 
> > The question was, as admitted, clumsy, but I thought the "answers" were
> > worse.
> > 
> > Anyone thing Microsoft is every going to come out and say what it is
> > that Linux infringes upon?
> 
> Well, their sockpuppet never actually did.......

If you mean Darl, doesn't he still insist on it anyway?

It's all just threat of course.

Two things would happen even in the case where there really were
Microsoft patents in Linux code:

	- 99% of the users wouldn't give a damn and would keep running it
	  and 0 percent of them would get in trouble unless they capitulated
	  against a threat
	- the offending code would be rewritten, and would probably end up
	  better, in a matter of weeks, if not days or hours


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