SCO v. IBM redux

[Leon Goldstein]

Bob Hemus wrote:

>On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 11:26 -0500, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
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>>Man-wai Chang wrote:
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>>>>>Microsoft takes on the free world
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>>>No. it's US government that's taking on the Linux because it's the 
>>>government's patent office granted Micro$oft the patent.
>>>
>>>Unless I mis-understood something... :)
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>>Are you talking about the US Patent Office, that just got a major
>>smackdown by the US Supreme Court?  Offhand, I would say that the court
>>system beats the bureaucracy.
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>>    -- Alma
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>What may be more important to M$ is how the EU courts treat ?m.  There?
>a bunch of country governments that use some flavor of Linux.  How about
>China?  They have more than 3 or 4 times the individuals than we?
>Microslop may be the only (ha-ha) OS in the US, but the least used OS in
>the world.
>Bob
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The trend in Europe, India and elsewhere to eschew Windows software in 
favor of Linux in government, schools, etc is probably the reason for 
this desperate attempt to stop the landslide.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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