Microsoft May Become Major Opponent of Patents?

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 7, 2005 @05:10AM from the birds-gotta-fly-fish-gotta-swim dept.

UltimaGuy wrote to mention a story positing that Microsoft may one day be a major opponent of over-reaching patents. From the article: "Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, said that although Microsoft is seen as being very pro-patent at the moment, if every other software maker enforced its patents in the same way then Microsoft would find it very difficult and expensive to do business. 'I think in ten years you will see Microsoft become a major opponent of patents and we will see very large software vendors turn around their position on patents,' Shuttleworth said."

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does money makes you a software expert? by jaromil · 2005-10-07 05:35 · Score: 0, Troll

i don't understand, i REALLY don't understand:

How can happen that someone gets to talk in a LinuxWorld conference just because he is a multi-millionaire that bought Debian and made his own brand with it?

Now we're listening to rich donors instead of real developers.

I'll be glad in 2 or 3 years when all this open source hype will be finished...