Comments on: The Economics of FUD http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/the-economics-of-fud/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/the-economics-of-fud/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Shane Coyle Sat, 26 May 2007 04:04:28 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/25/the-economics-of-fud/#comment-783 If you are in the software business (or looking to be), you may do well to invest heavily in OpenOffice.org development - it seems that whichever company is the primary contributor to the codebase gets a visit (and a check) from MS legal in exchange for your tacit acknowledgement of their "IP" If you haven't any morals, it could be a winning business plan. If you are in the software business (or looking to be), you may do well to invest heavily in OpenOffice.org development – it seems that whichever company is the primary contributor to the codebase gets a visit (and a check) from MS legal in exchange for your tacit acknowledgement of their "IP"

If you haven’t any morals, it could be a winning business plan.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/the-economics-of-fud/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 26 May 2007 03:53:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/25/the-economics-of-fud/#comment-781 Good take on the main issues. What I cannot understand if what Zemlin has described in the past as "admiration" (IIRC) for Microsoft. We have seen some shades of this in Mark Shuttleworth recently. All in all, they seem to be constructive as long as no exclusionary contract is involved. Zemlin: <em>"We ask Microsoft to stop engaging in FUD campaigns that only serve to undermine confidence in the U.S. intellectual-property system. Instead, please work with us to make the patent system tighter, more reasonable, and efficient for everyone in the software business."</em> Good take on the main issues.

What I cannot understand if what Zemlin has described in the past as “admiration” (IIRC) for Microsoft. We have seen some shades of this in Mark Shuttleworth recently. All in all, they seem to be constructive as long as no exclusionary contract is involved.

Zemlin: “We ask Microsoft to stop engaging in FUD campaigns that only serve to undermine confidence in the U.S. intellectual-property system. Instead, please work with us to make the patent system tighter, more reasonable, and efficient for everyone in the software business.”

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