[clue-talk] Microsoft Claims 235 Patents Violated

[Matt Poletiek]

This is obviously just FUD. Microsoft hasnt made any threats, only
pointed out what a few folks already knew.

What does this cause currently?
Well in my mind, innovation happens inside free minds. Those who
become upset over this recent news must have acknowledged and accepted
their dependance upon capitalism. The people behind Open Source
technology, in my mind, have acknowledged and accepted their
independance from capitalism. Liscencing never was a solution, people
still do what they want anyways.

One of the greatest benefits of open source is its liscence, not so
much because of what it defines, more because its the radical
liscence. The liscence hack. Its almost, the liscence of non-liscenced
content.

What this might do however, is cause MORE people to join the
commercial Linux camps. SUSE, Redhat, IBM, ect. This is expected of
those who again, are dependant upon capitalism.

Remember, there will always be free minds innovating. Change is the
nature of all and so there will always be free software.

........ Or to put it better, Microsoft is testing the commercial
Linux market. What happens next, we will all learn from.

On 5/15/07, miguelito <miguelito at biffster.org> wrote:
> >  From: David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> >  Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Microsoft Claims 235 Patents Violated
> >  Sent: 14 May '07 16:45
> >
> >  On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 16:20 -0600, dperkins at frii.com wrote:
> >  > > I think we should tell every Windows-using person we know about this,
> >  > > and ask them if this is who they want to business with.
> >  >
> >  > Most people couldn't care less until they see that it costs them money.
> >  > And not money from buying a product, or from time wasted.  It requires MS
> >  > telling them they must pay MS for something MS did not make.  Or steal.
> >
> >  <rant>
> >
> >  I disagree.  I believe that "most" people just need to be reminded that
> >  they can be honorable, that , once upon a time, we did our best to
> >  behave honorably, we expected the same from others, and when disappointed, we
> >  sometimes stopped buying from people, celebrities, or companies to show
> >  our disapproval.
>
> I agree in principle with what you are saying, David. But that's really not the way that people work. Especially when it comes to computers. I'd say at least 80% of computer users don't know and don't care about what OS their computer is running, nor how ethical the company that makes the OS may or may not be. All they care about is that their computer works.
>
> The 20% that may care tend to be fanboys, backing either Windows, Mac or Linux.
>
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