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Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents
prostoalex writes "Microsoft told Fortune magazine that various free software products violate at least 235 patents, and it's time to expect users of this software to pay up patent licensing royalties: 'Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.'"
You're an idiot aren't you. You obviously don't understand the GPL by any rate.
I have used linux (Debian) for many years now and have to say - Fuck You!
To hope that this is a victory for every linux user except US linux users is just selfish and shows how you have let your hatred of the US bleed into every issue.
It's called contributory infringement; please look it up before you open your mouth
you [b]fool[/b]
-Are you sure
we might see now M$icrosoft legal effort similar RIAA's
"don't copy free software it plagerise our patents and stops us earning MORE money"
"buy microfuck vista for the complete "fucked over" experience"
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2k SP4 is far more stable the XP SP2.
Just a couple weeks ago I upgraded from 2K to XP (I thought XP might be finally patched enough to run reliably). My DVD-MULTI drive is randomly not recognizing CD-R media (but sees all other types) in XP. If I boot back up off of my 2K drive it works fine (sees all media).
Yesterday I was looking on the net for information about the problem with CD-R media and suddenly the machine has started to not work on the network. It takes 10-20 clicks on a link (in any browser) for it to finally actually go out and load. Windows update quit working for some unknown reason (I assume related to this). Network troubleshooting says there is something wrong with the ndis driver or some part of the TCP/IP stack and after it tries to recover it's still broken.
I have verified that the machine was not hit by spyware/virus or some weird update. Updates are set to manual and I have a hardware firewall as well as the windows security stuff running plus third party antivirus/antispyware/registry monitors.
Never have I had a 2K install fall over like that in less then two weeks (or any other version of window for that matter).
I'm going back to 2K this week because clearly XP, even at SP2, is not stable or capable of supporting my system (Nforce3 AMD64 with Geforce 7800) all hardware that should "just work".
Maybe I will try again after SP3 or SP4 for XP, but if XP is anything to go by I will not touch Vista with a long-pointy-sticky-touchy-thingy.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.