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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: RaZoR1394 on 28 March 2006, 21:54

Title: Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux
Post by: RaZoR1394 on 28 March 2006, 21:54

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         An anonymous reader writes "According to an interview with Steve Ballmer in Forbes, Microsoft is open to the possibility of filing patent suits against Linux (http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2006/03/22/ballmer-microsoft-linux-cz_df_0322microsoft.html) in the interest of their shareholders. Ballmer said: 'Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I'm not going to comment. But to the degree that that's the case, of course we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy.' Microsoft filed more than 3000 new applications for software patents in 2005 and already owns more than 4000 patents, including many patents on fundamental, but trivial technologies, like double clicks."

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/27/1826219

Title: Re: Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 28 March 2006, 23:07

The question is do MS have any valid patents?

I'd like to say no but they could possibly have a few as far as the law is concerned but certainly not as many as they've filed.

Title: Re: Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 28 March 2006, 23:47

Ballmer is fucking hilarious ...

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Frankly, people value not only the compatibility our stuff has with itself, but they value the add-ons and the third-party customization that people have done. As long as we keep pushing the pace of innovation and delivering that value, I think we have a great opportunity.

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I probably know more now than I did six months or a year ago, about what's going on. So I'm getting smarter every day.

Only GWB can rival his omnipotent knowledge :D