[dundee] Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong

[Arron Finnon]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Back again with 235 dispute, and what an interesting article this is and 
you'd be left thinking Ballmer has been taking spin advice from Blair - The 
short of the story is the author of the study says that Ballmer is taking a 
figure of potential patent violations and banding it about is though there 
actual violations.  In essence he goes on to say that GNU/Linux systems are 
no more likely to breaking patents than any other OS.

He makes another intresting point that then lends it self to another thing 
that M$ is being unclear about - "Patents don't care how the infringing 
article is distributed, be it under an open-source license, a proprietary 
license or not at all. Therefore, if a patent infringes on Linux, it 
probably also infringes on Unix, Windows, etc.," 
(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1729908,00.asp).

So then the other gist i seem to get here is that M$ are saying that Linux 
infringes their intellectual property and implying generally that the 235 
apparent violations are owned by M$, but by reading the above their seems to 
be nothing to prove that even if there was a patent dispute that it would 
have anything to do M$ anyway.  No one has said so far who owns these 
patent, but Ballmer is acting as though their his patents.

I also came across this article in my general web browsing (i tell thee, 
Stumble is a very dangerous add-on for Firefox) - 
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1519 -

As i looking into my crystal ball, i see another ludicrous statement in the 
future and i just hope it's not me

Catch you guys later

Arr0n

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