Halloween X Author Mike Anderer Speaks Out

cdlu writes "Mike Anderer, author of the now-famous Halloween X document, has spoken out at NewsForge. Among the highlights is a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves."

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Misconstrued

[Ralph Yarro]

He doesn't say "that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves", he says that Microsoft have a great many lawsuits queued up AGAINST them. His perspective is evidently that you can only survive in the operating systems market if you can stand up against the sort of litigation that Microsoft has to. I don't think his point is a very good one but let's not pretend that it was something else entirely.

RTFA!!!

[wjsteele]

Did you even read the article? He didn't say that Microsoft had 50 "disruptive lawsuits" up their sleeves... he said that Microsoft is going to face 50 lawsuits from people sueing them. His point was that someone smaller, like RedHat couldn't withstand that kind of judgement against them because of their limited resources.

Bill

perhaps this is SCO's 'MIT rocket scientist'

[fw3]

Anderer:

"it does not take an MIT rocket scientist to think it would make sense for the largest software company in the world to increase their rights by taking another license"

This is all I can really give you considering the NDA. As for the PIPE deal, I cannot comment at all, but I also would have nothing of interest to add beyond what has already been made public.

I will file close to 20 patents this year for companies in many spaces [mars?]

Anderer's patents:

6,546,418 Method for managing printed medium activated revenue sharing domain name system schemas
6,448,979 Printed medium activated interactive communication of multimedia information, including advertising
6,314,457 Method for managing printed medium activated revenue sharing domain name system schemas

This 'article' is just barely better-written than Halloween X itself, no doubt this is the guy (and hey, there's open-source in action, he writes in (marginally) better style when he knows it's gonna be read by people who actually know about style(1) and diction(1)).

Anyhow, great, he's worked for SCO under NDA, he's got a lot of Darl-like bombast about economic justification for his actions.

He *thinks* he's a rocket scientist (mostly people who say 'it's not rocket science' do think this :-).

He's writing junk patents, apparently for people who haven't figured out that the .com bubble has burst.

Re:Think about how you vote this November.

[dbc001]

I think it's time to start calling your local attorneys general and suggest that they work on anti-trust proceedings against microsoft again. am i correct in assuming that these sorts of actions start at the attorneys general? my impression is that some of these guys are actually out to defend us, so if we give them a barrage of phone calls maybe they will look into it. Here's where you can get some contact info.

Groklaw's take on this

[FunWithHeadlines]

And here's PJ's take on this letter in Groklaw. She feels he inadvertantly gave away the overall scheme. Interesting stuff.