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Microsoft Stoking the IP Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ip-fud-on-the-rise dept.

gokulpod writes to tell us the Financial Express is reporting that Microsoft is heating up the IP battle once again with warnings about IP indemnifications issues. From the article: "Analysts believe that the core issue at stake is whether open source software increases litigation risks. Open source advocates are quick to point out the IP litigation faced by Microsoft itself. Ubuntu founder and leader Mark Shuttleworth says, 'Linux is growing fast and whenever there is a new way of doing things, people will raise all kind of issues.'"

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  1. The New Global Economy by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those who can, compete.

    Those who can't, sue.

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    May the Maths Be with you!
    1. Re:The New Global Economy by muszek · · Score: 4, Funny

      And yet we learned one more thing from TFA:

      "Ubuntu (open source software being used by Google)"

      which clearly is the most accurate and informative definition of Ubuntu

      Lesson learnt: those who don't know shit about technology, try to explain everything in relation to Google. I guess keyboard is a "device used by Google engineers to input data into computers" from now on.

    2. Re:The New Global Economy by Dove_from_above · · Score: 3, Funny

      "If Necessity is the mother of Invention, then Ownership is the mother of Innovation" Horatio Longbottom, 2005

      I'm speculating that there is an obvious correlation between the amount we sue, and how innovative we are as a society (aka the research investment argument).

      Ultimately we will be so innovative that we will just spend all our time suing others.

      Is it possible to have a sustainable economic system in which the only good or service manufactured is the legal pursuit of another entity for derivative rights infringement?

  2. Everyones helping out by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Balmers chopping up chairs as firewood :D

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  3. IP Battle? by HaydnH · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least I can safely say I own 127.0.0.1! Oh wait...

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    Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
    1. Re:IP Battle? by GaryPatterson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, this is going to be so good - I'm readying a whole series of probes and attacks against your IP address right now!

      You're going to regret posting that out in the open!