Archive for the ‘microsoft’ Category

Microsoft Says, “MINE!!!”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Here is a more comprehensive article about Microsoft's recent patent aggression. "The free world says that software is the embodiment of knowledge about technology, which needs to be free in the same way that mathematics is free," he says. "Everybody is allowed to know as much of it as he wants, ...

Microsoft’s Excessive Shit-Talking Causes Chronic Corporate Halitosis

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Microsoft recently alleged that various forms of open source software collectively violate 235 of its patents. They say that Linux, GUIs, e-mail programs, and Open Office are among the IP violators. This is apparently aimed at Red Hat and other companies that sell service and support for ...