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Old 07-05-2007, 10:31 PM   #1
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LXer: The Reason for All These Patent Deals?


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Red Hat wants to talk interoperability, but Microsoft's reluctance says much about real objectives behind recent patent agreements. Microsoft's childlike "that's mine" attitude about intellectual property and patent violation claims against open source doesn't explain the company's resistance to Red Hat. The question to ask: Whose intellectual property rights is Microsoft seeking to protect?

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Old 07-06-2007, 01:22 AM   #2
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Haha, now a company that actually wants an *only interoperability* deal gets the cold shoulder....

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Old 07-06-2007, 01:46 AM   #3
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Microsoft is a funny one, every other day they're devils hunting software souls, every other day saints begging for mercy because they're hunted what a joke.

There's (at least yet) a website (in Finnish) called Hikipedia (translated into English, "Sweatpedia") which has a lot of things to say, among others about Microsoft and Windows. Ok, it's far from reality, but can't help laughing

Quoted about Microsoft (translated so non-finns understand it too):
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Microsoft is, for now, world's suckiest and biggest company that creates computer software and porn videos. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pamela Anderson in 1985, after a moist bar night. The motto of Windows is: "The bugs of tomorrow already today."
http://hiki.pedia.ws/wiki/Microsoft

Quoted about Windows (translated so non-finns understand it too):
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Windows is an operating system like product developed by Microsoft, and is an essential part of a computer. It's named after the numerous security holes, "windows", that bogys can use to climb into the computer for a visit. According to Bill Gates, these "windows" have been made to cool down and ventilate the operating system.
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Originally Windows was developed to browse the joybox.
http://hiki.pedia.ws/wiki/Windows

Ok, enough bad humour, but it _is_ humour after all.

Back to the real subject, every morning I wake up I just can't help wondering why the world is so slow, blind and foolish that they actually let things like Microsoft roll on, even tough the masses see it's going the wrong way.
 
  


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