Torvalds in Microsoft patent fray
p2pnet.net news:- Linux creator Linus Torvalds has weighed into Bill and the Boyz for claiming their patents are being by violated by open source software.
Name the 235 patents which infringe, he’s challenged Microsoft.
Microsoft recently asserted one of the reasons free software, “is of such high quality” is because it, “violates more than 200 of Microsoft’s patents,” states Fortune Magazine.
Now, specifying which patents are being violated, “would make it either clear that Linux isn’t infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,” says Torvalds, according to InformationWeek.
“So the whole, ‘We have a list and we’re not telling you,’ itself should tell you something,” the story has Torvalds declaring, adding, and for good measure, “Don’t you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they’d just tell us and go, ‘nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!’”
Also See:
violated – Microsoft versus GPLv3, May 14, 2007
Fortune – Microsoft takes on the free world, May 14, 2007take down – Grateful Dead back online, December 2, 2006
InformationWeek – Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims, May 15, 2007
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May 16th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Linux should supeener Microsoft for all there patents to check for infringement.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Talk is cheap. M$, put up or shut up you dinosaur.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Huh huh
You said peener
May 17th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Bill Gates is a FUCKING RETARD.
He truly represents what the face of pure unadultered greed is all about.
HEY SHITHEAD BILL ; IT ISN’T ALL ABOUT MONEY ASSHOLE.
You and your worthless american company is typical in how most US corporations do not how to be innovative and creative in a competitive world business market and in this case the LINUX os system is upstaging the worthless windowsucks xp and vista operating systems and Billy the fucking butthead don’t like it.
Billy the buttplug will either run off the equally worthless Us court system with it’s fucking retarded and outdated copyright laws crying like a fucking big crybaby or maybe he can bribe all of his democrap Us congressman buddies with big fat kickback and bribe checks so those bunch of born fucking losers can make more stupid protectionest anti business and anti innovation laws to prop up FAILING BUSINESS MODELS LIKE MICROSUCKS.