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geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to
the anti-software patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to
silly patents over the years far outweight their gains from them.
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Amazing
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With all due respect what amazes me is that you believe that. Can you
offer any objective proof?
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Where has Microsoft's junk patents given them any money? Unless they
are using extortion (possible) to quietly threaten potential FOSS
defecties away, that is. They are not selling those, and they have
never sued anyone (well, one). It also seems that not many are taking
their threats too seriously - we did not exactly see the FOSS world
grind to a halt, after all.<br>
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If they are not making much money off their silly patents, and they are
losing, then their loses outweight their gains.<br>
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> totally irrelevant stuff deleted.<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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