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Posted in Interoperability, Microsoft, Novell, Patents, Samba at 8:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
When you see a column with the headline “Two cheers for intellectual-property law”, then you know that someone is serving a personal agenda. Indeed, it was Microsoft. While demonising Richard Stallman, Brad Smith tries to justify software patents. Need we mention the recent lawsuits over support for MP3?
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> Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, noted evidence that “Linux infringed 283 different software patents.” He defended such violations on the grounds that “proprietary software is evil.”
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It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft decalred joint victory — the context being Open XML — amid actual defeat. Self-serving news of this kind reached Beta News and now it’s C|Net, which are notorious due to their pro-Microsoft bias.
Meanwhile, using press releases, Microsoft says a company has paid to be allowed access what the European Commission describes as protocols too trivial to be patentable. Novell could be the precedence here.
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