Hey frenz,
You ppl might have heard about the patent cases filed by MS against some of the Linux based companies. Those are just their PR strategies. Even our Linux Guru Linus Torvalds said as
“They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don’t think they’ve — not that I’ve gone through any huge amount of law cases — but I don’t think they’ve generally used patents as a weapon,” Torvalds said. “But they’re perfectly happy to use anything at all as fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace, and patents is just one thing where they say, ‘Hey, isn’t this convenient? We can use this as a PR force.’”
He also said that – “Another reason why I don’t think Microsoft really seriously would go after patents is when you’re a convicted monopolist in the marketplace you really should not be suing your competitors over patents,” Torvalds continued. “I think that most Microsoft lawyers would say, ‘You know, let’s not do that; that sounds insane’.”
Not only Linus but the whole Linux community is there to back this opinion. In my opinion i would say, its the beginning of the era which can be named as END OF MICROSOFT. Sounds like the end of a dynasty’s era, Yes microsoft was a dynasty who monopolized PCs, but then it was/is-being slowly conquered by Linux communities and Mac-OS-X.
Enjoy these stunts by Microsoft till it ends…
[Excerpts/Courtesy: Torvalds : Microsoft is bluffing on patents]
