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Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims
An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds has a sharp retort to Microsoft executives' statements in a Fortune article that Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents. In an emailed response to InformationWeek's Charlie Babcock, Torvalds writes: 'It's certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does.' He added: 'Basic operating system theory was pretty much done by the end of the 1960s. IBM probably owned thousand of really "fundamental" patents... The fundamental stuff... has long, long since lost any patent protection.'" Torvalds also commented on Microsoft's stated intention not to sue Linux users: "They'd have to name the patents then, and they're probably happier with the FUD than with any lawsuit."
Please note that this article violates 207 Microsoft patents. Anyone commenting on it will be violating a further 703 patents. Except me.
"Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'"
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
It looks like Linus has been reading Slashdot the past couple of days.
Oh! And we should keep the list secret!
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.
Just remember kids that you can't spell Microsoft without SCO (and MIROFT).
No, you misread the article completely. What it said is that Linus is dead and you should get a day job.
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Jesus loves you, I think you suck
I'M FOR COST
No need, I've already made the list. And damn Microsoft violates a lot of patents; 312 to be precise.
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