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Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up
An anonymous reader writes "Via Groklaw comes comments from Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at a UK event, in which the company once again threatens Linux distributions that haven't signed up with their program. '"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us," Ballmer said last week ... Ballmer praised Novell at the UK event for valuing intellectual property, and suggested that open source vendors will be forced to strike similar deals with other patent holders. He predicted that firms like Eolas will soon come after open source vendors or users. Microsoft paid $521m to settle a patent claim by Eolas in August.'"
I couldn't tell from the article, but which intellectual property is MS saying open source solutions are infringing on? Or am I misunderstanding the issue?
Bark less. Wag more.
The real life equivalent of the AI meeting with the player every turn to say "we demand tribute for our patience" and demanding gold and technology. Too bad I can't have my usual response: a full-out attack, leaving their names to the annals of history! muahaha!
I don't play too much CivII, do I?
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
Hooo, ~scary~ So what? Eolas is coming for linux users? Weren't we already waiting for Microsoft? What next? Santa Claus maybe? Or a wing of flying chairs? The two only things he is sucessfully discrediting is Microsoft and the distros wich ranked with him (I feel like sorry for Suse to be associated with this man).
I use Linux, in part because I didn't want to give you any money anymore, so could you please explain to me why you think I owe you money?
Microsoft: Well, you own a computer, don't you?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
For Ubuntu and Debian, I'd recommend they just give Microsoft 5% of all the profit they make off selling Linux to customers.
I've paid over and over for your crap fucking operating system, I won't be giving you another redhat fscking cent you worthless overblown piece of shit.
Go fuck yourself.
Salut,
Jacques
I missed the press release. When did Darl McBride start working for Microsoft? Maybe he do for Microsoft everything he did for SCO!
October 10, 2007
... er, license fee.". Some of the questions for the audience include, "Does the copyright apply to rocking chairs as well? What about bean bags?" Balmer retorted with, "anything I can sit my big-ole-fat-ass in qualifies as a chair!".
London, UK - Steve Balmer at a recent rally had witnessed an upset executive throwing a chair at his subordinate. Balmer quickly reacted with threats of IP infringment stating, "Hey Pal, I was the one who invented Chair throwing at your employee's! Unless you're going to pay up the license fee, I'll see you in court!" Balmer further addressed the reporters at the rally, "I think we'll consider a new copyright on throwing chairs at Linuxer's that fail to pay the Microsoft Sin Tax
Ballmer knows he has no chance in hell of ever getting anything from this. The whole situation has been analyzed and recently the OIN told Ballmer to put up or shut up, so Ballmer is just saying this because he seems to get of sexually over all the attention he gets every time he opens his butthole about Linux.
He knows he's just farting into the wind and he's simply doing it to stink things up and hoping that he isn't standing there when he lets one go and the wind changes.
He's a fruitcake and he has no idea how shitty it makes him look. When the shit hits the fan then we'll seem something more than Ballmer jerking off in front of the fan with his mouth open.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.