Should We Follow Novell v. MS in Detail?

e6003 writes "Groklaw has a fascinating article written by a retired attorney. In short, he believes FOSS advocates should be following the recently announced Novell anti-trust case against Microsoft with as much vigour as we do the SCO-IBM case. Whilst the latter is to all intents and purposes settled in favour of the Good Guys, the article points out how Novell v. MS is far harder to call. Evidence produced during this new case, he argues, may be valuable for proving anti-competitive intent on Microsoft's behalf should MS (or a proxy) go on a patent rampage against FOSS. Finally, the article points out that Microsoft either destroys evidence itself (see the Burst.com case) or requires evidence to be destroyed as part of settlements (as in the Caldera DR-DOS case)."

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m$ has been in a downward spiral for some time... patent grabs and ip is their greatest hope for securing their revenu stream for the long term... open source is taking a bite out of their model and the move towards non proprietary formats and open source software at some companies cannot be hidden from the view of others... their best bet is to hope and work towards a day when you need to pay a licence fee to use an open source browser that uses a protocol m$ says they invented...