If Redhat or Suse customers can be sued for using Linux then Microsoft customers can be sued for using Windows.
I don't say what might or might not happen, I am just looking at what did happen in the past: MS got sued from a lot of companies about patents, not their customers.
On the other hand linux using companies been attacked by SCO.
I see no reason to believe this will change - why do you think it might? Whishful thinking?
Why should they? If there is anything in an MS product violating some patent somewhere MS will be sued, not the customer (already happened, think EOLAS).
So why should the customer bother if MS is being sued? One more lawsuit won't matter to MS at all.
There is a movement in the Europe Union to get software patents up and running, and it seems Munich wants to make a stand against software patents.
Same as the move of Munich to migrate to Linux was a political one, now the move against software patents is a political one.
I really hope software patents will be stopped in europe before they get startet! For more information about software patents in Europe see http://swpat.ffii.org/
Hey, it ain't MS fault one can't even write a decent virus on Linux:*)
It ain't that easy to spread a virus when everyone you want to infect needs to grab the sources of the virus, compile them, then needs to update a few libs, which will only run with a new kernel, this in turn needs update of [...and so on...].
No virus kid^H^H^Hwriter is up to that challenge, especially since there will be near to no hope getting into the antivir highscore's with this.
The form factor means you can pull one out in a meeting without hiding behind a laptop screen
It's strange though, most people get along better with typing stuff in a keyboard during a meeting then writing it down on paper or a tablet pc: For most it is easier to keep eye contact and give visual feedback to the talkers using a keyboard since with keyboard the need to look at your notes is not as high as with written notes.
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Why should they? If there is anything in an MS product violating some patent somewhere MS will be sued, not the customer (already happened, think EOLAS). So why should the customer bother if MS is being sued? One more lawsuit won't matter to MS at all.
*yet* is the keyword.
There is a movement in the Europe Union to get software patents up and running, and it seems Munich wants to make a stand against software patents.
Same as the move of Munich to migrate to Linux was a political one, now the move against software patents is a political one.
I really hope software patents will be stopped in europe before they get startet!
For more information about software patents in Europe see http://swpat.ffii.org/
Hey, it ain't MS fault one can't even write a decent virus on Linux :*)
It ain't that easy to spread a virus when everyone you want to infect needs to grab the sources of the virus, compile them, then needs to update a few libs, which will only run with a new kernel, this in turn needs update of [...and so on...].
No virus kid^H^H^Hwriter is up to that challenge, especially since there will be near to no hope getting into the antivir highscore's with this.
It's strange though, most people get along better with typing stuff in a keyboard during a meeting then writing it down on paper or a tablet pc:
For most it is easier to keep eye contact and give visual feedback to the talkers using a keyboard since with keyboard the need to look at your notes is not as high as with written notes.
Of course your experience may vary...