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It seems Groklaw will have to open a new category, answering Florian Mueller FUD. As you know he recently claimed that IBM had violated its public pledge not to sue Linux for patent infringement. I think he's mistaken. IBM, when it announced the patent pledge, specifically reserved the right to defend itself from attack: "IBM has no intention of asserting its patent portfolio against the Linux kernel, unless of course we are forced to defend ourselves," said Nick Donofrio, senior vice president for technology and manufacturing, drawing applause in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. And in the TurboHercules story, who is suing whom? It's not IBM, folks. The complaint against IBM was filed with the EU Commission by TurboHercules. At that exact moment, did they not take themselves out from under the patent pledge's safety umbrella?

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And yet this stupid bot reported it as fact.

No, the bot merely quoted the article nothing more.

The original headline said IBM is breaking their patent agreement. "IBM Break patent promise" It did not say "someone alleges IBM is breaking their patent agreement". That is not just quoting the article. That is stirring up trouble for the sake of page views. You can believe what you want.
Did you actually read the original article ?
I guess not.
I dismissed the article as a patent troll at the time, did you ?

To be quite honest I've had enough of people who seem to be quite happy for their computing lives to be designated by other people. They don't deserve to be part of the free software movement. Install windows and get it over with !
At the very least shut TF up !