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StorageMojo is right, I'm unlikely to support purchasing NetApp again regardless of how this nonsense finishes

"We spend $7 billion a year on research, development and cranking out innovations. We need to protect our innovations against people who infringe upon them."

What could make the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proprietary software companies, and at least one venture capitalist into allies?

thrust of the article is this FUD destables OSS, I think it threatens software patents themselves.

couple of folks pointed me to this, and they're right - it's a very useful, and very rational, take on patents and other mechanisms like copyright, trade secrets and so forth

"If push comes to shove, would Microsoft sue its customers for royalties, the way the record industry has? 'That's not a bridge we've crossed," says CEO Ballmer, "and not a bridge I want to cross today on the phone with you.' " - that's not a no <sigh>

"I have decided to leave Novell. This has been a very difficult decision, but one I feel I have no choice but to make. As many of you will guess, this is due to the Microsoft/Novell patent agreement, which I believe is a mistake and will be damaging to No

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

In practice, then, Microsoft's position is that no one may sell an operating system without Microsoft's permission (or unless you've amassed enough patents that Microsoft can't risk a patent war with you).