Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches

via Slashdot...

Edit: From the Slashdot comment thread...
"Microsoft is afraid, plain and simple. This an edorsement by the market leader that Linux is ready for the desktop. They were afraid to see Novell pushing it but when Dell went onboard and picked the most user friendly of distros to do it with; Microsoft became terrified.

Do you know why you never saw something like this from Microsoft before? They didn't think it was worth their time."

1 comment:

Pete said...

Ha! You just needed an excuse to post that terrible, terrible picture.

Gates sent a cease and desist letter to the Homebrew Computer Club back in 1976.
Gates to the wireheads: "Most directly, what you do is theft." A link to the text.

A prophetic moment. The Woz and Gates represent a universal polarity. One that I would pay dearly to see resolved in a caged deathmatch.