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Title: micro$haft to take on linux... Post by: Aske on May 14, 2007, 08:29:17 AM http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
Title: Re: micro$haft to take on linux... Post by: Uisce Beatha on May 14, 2007, 08:35:40 AM Quote He says that the Linux kernel - the deepest layer of the free operating system, which interacts most directly with the computer hardware - violates 42 Microsoft patents. The Linux graphical user interfaces - essentially, the way design elements like menus and toolbars are set up - run afoul of another 65, he claims. LOL. What a bunch of weenies. Microsoft invented menus and toolbars... right. ::) They're going down. Ten years max. Title: Re: micro$haft to take on linux... Post by: hobbit on May 14, 2007, 08:59:27 AM Microsoft probably has little to stand on. Many of the 'patents' would likely be revoked as invalid under review. But thats not to say all of them would.
'open source' needs a better front man than Stallman. His ego will end up doing more harm than good. Like Microsoft never violated a patent ::) Title: Re: micro$haft to take on linux... Post by: Torpedo on May 14, 2007, 06:30:52 PM Microsoft invented menus and toolbars... right. ::) Nope, Bill Gates did. ::) ;D |