Dralnu |
11-17-2006 09:22 AM |
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Originally Posted by joewee
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Not suprised that the same guy who called Linux a cancer would spout this bullshit. The MS/Novell deal is just an attempt at MS to try and get code out of Linux legally, and to try and muck up a great OS.
MS claims to own the OS world, but they have yet to provide any proof that they have actually proivded any inovation to the operating system market outside of making an OS that is insecure, horribly slow, poorly programmed, but is popular due to strong-arm marketing tatics and having enough lawyers to make their illegal deals somehow, well, legal.
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Jones also challenged Ballmer to "put his money where his mouth is" and detail exactly what part of the Linux kernel source code allegedly infringes upon Microsoft patents, so that "folks will strip out the code and work around it or prove his patent invalid."
Ballmer did not provide details during his comments today. But he was adamant that Linux users, apart from those using SUSE, are taking advantage of Microsoft innovation, and that someone -- either Linux vendors or users -- would eventually have to pay up.
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This pretty much sums up Microsofts claims. They have no proof of anything, and while they can keep trying to sling shit at the F/OSS community, it seems to just keep sliding off.
[QUOTE}"Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly for intellectual property from Microsoft," he said. "We are willing to do a deal with Red Hat and other Linux distributors." The deal with SUSE Linux "is not exclusive," Ballmer added.[/QUOTE}
This is also pretty much proof that they have no claims. The programs provided by SuSe in their RPM packages is not SuSe's property - its the coder. SuSe does not own the kernel, or anything outside of YaST/YUM/whatever system tool they use now. No distro does.
If M$ wants money for these fantastic claims, then they can look up the thousands of coders who suposedly violate M$s patents, then sue them each, one at a time, but I think they are just as afraid of being sued themselves for stealing ideas from other real operating systems (MacOS, Linux, ect), such as their whole "Aero" theme.
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