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Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-whoop dept.

gillbates writes "Today Microsoft warned several Asian countries that using Linux could subject them to lawsuits, claiming that Linux violates '228 patents'. Apparently, Steve Ballmer believes he can enforce U.S. law in Asia." Ballmer is presumably speaking about this story. So, companies which sell insurance against lawsuits and companies which make competing products both warn of the dangers of using Linux. Maybe someone should point out that Microsoft is battling dozens of patent-infringement lawsuits itself, and any user of Microsoft software (including governments) could also be sued?

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  1. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. Hooray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Steve Ballmer spreading FUD. What else is new?

  4. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHAHAHAHAHA...I LOVE it.

  5. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Too bad stupid mods didn't read the effing article.

  6. FRIST s1TOP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Esurveys show that irrecoverable implementation to empire in decline, dim. If *BSD is all know we want. Beyond th-e scope of give BSD credit rapid, start a holy war

  7. New patent. I 0wn y00 all!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A method by which an minute electrical signal automatically originates from an organic controller, is carried by organic equivalents of wires to a group of organic actuators, thereby causing attached organic diaphram to move, bringing in oxygen to sacs where carbon dioxide is exchanged with oxygen.

    I 0wn breathing now .. y00 will 0w3 me for licensing!!!

    all y00r br3aths belong to me

  8. Re:Groklaw started all of this by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why use such inflammatory language?

    People respect the site because it's a good source of information regarding ongoing legal cases, for chrissakes, not because of some sort of wierd cult worship!

    You could be right, you could be wrong, I don't know. Anyone with a shred of common sense who can comment on this?

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  9. Re:So? by timster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think it was the Hundred Year War... a hundred centuries is 10,000 years. I don't think there was a kingdom of France or England in 8000 BC.

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    I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
  10. Re:So? by MadKeithV · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A hundred century war ey? That's a mere 10.000 years there. Surprising that England and France were duking it out before the Egyptians had figured out how to stack stones...

    A hundred year's war would do.