[dundee] Groklaw - Microsoft/AST/OIN Patents Story

[Rick Moynihan]

2009/9/16 Iain Barnett <iainspeed at gmail.com>:
>
> On 15 Sep 2009, at 21:56, gordon dunlop wrote:
>
> This is an article by Pamela Jones of Groklaw giving all the details about
> the buying of 22 patents from Microsoft by AST (Allied Security Trust) on
> behalf of OIN (Open Invention Network) to protect Linux. Why I like Pamela
> Jones articles are that she does thorough research ( click on all the links
> for the background stories) and that also she is very clever and thorough
> when examining the law processes involved in these stories:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090911130806414
>
> Gordon
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>
> How does helping spread FUD about Linux benefit HP?

Who knows?!  But arguably HP might have an interest in pushing high
end Unix users towards HP-UX rather than Linux.

Just because HP are willing to sell Linux on laptops, doesn't
necessarily mean that they don't want to hobble it on the server.

Regardless it still seems bonkers... but then the world of software
patents usually does!

R.