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80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented

Posted by timothy on from the minefield-aerobics dept.

perlow writes "ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license? Are Microsoft's patent and intellectual property threats simply the growls of a paper tiger?"

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  1. Money for nothing and your sales for free. by inTheLoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A patent is for something where you want to make money off of the copies.

    Is this why SAMBA had to reverse engineer everything? M$ advertises a lot. How did I miss the adverts about all those licensed OS and network stack alternatives? Oh yeah, the M$ way of making money of their patents is to keep everyone else out of the market. Forgot about that one.

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