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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is there any evidence that m$ doesn't control the

[someone1234]

patent troll in question? I wouldn't be surprised if they use a sock puppet to achieve their nasty goals.

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[Volante3192]

FWIW, and offtopic, but whatever... the McDonalds coffee case is not as cut and dried as "Lady spills coffee on lap, wins millions," but in fact McDonalds had a lengthy history of serving coffee at temperatures higher than the industry norm and known to cause third degree burns. They also had a chronic history of ignoring customer complains about it. There were memos as well that came out.

It was this continued brushing off of the customer that really tightened the screws for McDonalds. McDs wasn't punished *just* for her, but for the many others who had complained.