Comments on: Microsoft versus GPLv3 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12213 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12213/comment-page-1#comment-138255 Reader's Write Mon, 14 May 2007 23:47:55 +0000 #comment-138255 "Same thing we try and do every night Pinky, TRY AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!" Well, as long as MS opens up their code, ALL their code so their claims can be verified then that's just peachy... “Same thing we try and do every night Pinky, TRY AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!”

Well, as long as MS opens up their code, ALL their code so their claims can be verified then that’s just peachy…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12213/comment-page-1#comment-138250 Reader's Write Mon, 14 May 2007 18:35:23 +0000 #comment-138250 Microsoft would have to nutts to go down this road. If they do and has been made public Microsoft will have patent suit coming in left right and center. I dont think Microsoft are that silly. Microsoft would have to nutts to go down this road. If they do and has been made public Microsoft will have patent suit coming in left right and center. I dont think Microsoft are that silly.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12213/comment-page-1#comment-138242 Reader's Write Mon, 14 May 2007 16:30:05 +0000 #comment-138242 This whole idea of patenting software is totally insane. Thousands of software application routines were published in books long before Microsoft came onto the scene with MSDOS. In fact, before the Apple-II came around, many of us were developing software for the CP/M operating system (S100 ring a bell ?). When the Apple-II came around, a company called Microsoft developed the Z80 Softcard which allowed Apples to run the CP/M operating system. A few years later, when IBM was looking for an operating system, Microsoft was picked after Bill Gates purchased an operating system from another company. MSDOS was so close to the likeness of CP/M that it made it easy to transition over to IBM. When multi-tasking applications were introduced, each task was considered to be operating within its own task "window". Interesting that Microsoft claims ownership to many software applications that were produced by other companies. If Microsoft does indeed sue for software patent infringement, I believe many of their patents will be disqualified due to "prior art" or for "obviousness" reasons. I also feel Microsoft let us down when it introduced the infamous "lock down" OS called Vista. Terminating the availability of XP simply put the "icing on the cake". Goodbye Microsoft. This whole idea of patenting software is totally insane. Thousands of software application routines were published in books long before Microsoft came onto the scene with MSDOS. In fact, before the Apple-II came around, many of us were developing software for the CP/M operating system (S100 ring a bell ?). When the Apple-II came around, a company called Microsoft developed the Z80 Softcard which allowed Apples to run the CP/M operating system. A few years later, when IBM was looking for an operating system, Microsoft was picked after Bill Gates purchased an operating system from another company. MSDOS was so close to the likeness of CP/M that it made it easy to transition over to IBM. When multi-tasking applications were introduced, each task was considered to be operating within its own task “window”. Interesting that Microsoft claims ownership to many software applications that were produced by other companies. If Microsoft does indeed sue for software patent infringement, I believe many of their patents will be disqualified due to “prior art” or for “obviousness” reasons. I also feel Microsoft let us down when it introduced the infamous “lock down” OS called Vista. Terminating the availability of XP simply put the “icing on the cake”. Goodbye Microsoft.

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