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Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft
christian.einfeldt writes "The FOSS press has speculated for some time now that Mark Shuttleworth would probably not agree to any patent 'protection' deals with Microsoft, but blogger Steven Rosenberg has found a page on Shuttleworth's personal blog ('Here Be Dragons') that unambiguously sets out Shuttleworth's opposition to Canonical's participation in any such deal. Rosenberg summarizes Shuttleworth's position in these terms: 'So there you have it — Canonical welcomes any efforts by Microsoft to improve "interoperability," isn't a fan of OpenXML, doesn't want to infringe on anybody's patents or trademarks, thinks Microsoft's threats are ill-advised, and would like to actually deal with the issue rather than respond out of fear.'
If everyone knew what was going on, they'd've switched to Mac already.
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
I agree he's a smart guy, which is why I'm having so much trouble figuring out why he picked gnome over KDE for Ubuntu.
The Farewell Tour II