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1. Comment - Microsoft Scrambling to Explain Ballmer Comment on Red Hat Linux

   (Oct 12, 2007 - 10:52 AM)

   Microsoft plays dirty, remember that.. and remember all the stuff they tried to pull during the DOJ trial. They wanted to believe they were untouchable, and it turns out they were in the US with bushy letting them off the hook. but had anyone else pulled the stuff they tried on, they'd have been done for contempt in the very least.
   
   Microsoft won't do it to win a judgement, they will do it to create uncertaintity.
   
   Ironically, after SCO, I'd be inclined to think that the "uncertainty" will be about them since all of tomorrows IT people are today playing with Linux on old PC's.. things are not as they once were and Microsoft needs to face that.
   
   They are likely to lose any patents they use against OSS simply because of 2 points.
   
   1. Microsoft never really "innovate" they just expand on on existing stuff.
   2. OSS has millions of rabid supporters who will do OSS's legal work for them and find all and any examples of prior art that are hidden out there.
   
   Bring it on I say, I'll donate something to redhat every day of the trial. I have to support MS software at the uni where I work, but I loath their history and their ethics, and their uncaring attidude toward the customer.