SCO v. IBM redux

[David Bandel]

On 5/14/07, Ed Jabbour <ejbr at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Microsoft takes on the free world
>
> Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of
> corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from
> distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff
> reports.

Shall we laugh now or later?

Microsoft uses BSD code in Windows.  The BSD license permits this, and
they don't even have to show the license as long as it remains in the
source code.

The EFF should claim M$ is in violation of the GPL, but that would
mean someone would have to leak M$ code.  No OSS programmer wants to
see M$ code because that would prevent them from ever being able to
write any OSS code to connect to a M$ system.

I would love to see this go to court.  M$ failed with their Scodera
lackeys, so they want to have a try themselves.  It's fun to watch M$
fail.  I just don't have all day to sit around and do it.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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