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Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches
CptRevelation writes "Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach by the open-source community. Despite their accusations of infringement, they state they would rather do licensing deals instead of any legal action. 'Open-source programs step on 235 Microsoft patents, the company said. Free Linux software violates 42 patents. Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65. E-mail programs step on 15, and other programs touch 68 other patents, the company said. The patent figures were first reported by Fortune magazine. Microsoft also said Open Office, an open-source program supported in part by Sun Microsystems Inc., infringes on 45 patents. Sun declined to comment on the allegation.'"
Come to the place there are no software patents, where open source software is being used and encouraged by governments, where you still have the freedom not to be spied upon constantly because of the "war on [whatever scares people currently]", where convicted monopolists do indeed get punished, where capital punishment is history, where copyright infringement isn't a more serious crime than rape or child abuse, where wages are high and paid vacations are long.
Come on you open source fellas, leave the USA and let it choke on it's frivolous patent system and corporate ass-kissing.
Come to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Come to (continental) Europe!
People would assume that on the US, not true for other countries in which people are more free to think.