Ubuntu Founder Says Microsoft Not A Big Threat

Golygydd Max writes "Who says that Microsoft and open source developers are enemies? It's not Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He says that Microsoft is not the patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, and that the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years. 'He said the most dangerous litigants are companies not themselves in the software business, small ventures or holding companies that get their principal revenue from patent licensing. He singled out former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures, which is stockpiling patents at a rate that alarms large companies such as IBM and HP, as an example of such a potentially dangerous company.'"

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Re:Microsoft to Ubuntu

[eneville]

what the fuck does Ubuntu mean?

it's actually a pretty cool concept, tho (as with any good idea) it's been variously interpreted and applied.
from Wikipedia: [ducks] oohh! UBUNTU, for ages i've been reading it as 'ubutnut'... [/ducks]