Nathan Myhrvold from Microsoft is now managing Intellectual Ventures, which is arguably a bigger patent troll than Acacia [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. We mentioned this company before because Microsoft could use Intellectual Ventures for lawsuits against competitors like Linux, by proxy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
Watch the following recent video and jump to 35:20, which contains some GNU/Linux FUD. For future reference, as you can see, this guy is quite hostile towards open source. This includes myths about the technical abilities of Free software programmers, user friendliness, cost, etc. ⬆
Microsoft-connected patent trolls in Europe [...] Now, in his new job, Wild can use his 'expertise' to help guide blackmail/extortion to better harm Europe's industry
One of our readers is working to help GNU through the maze of software patents and maze of patent lawsuits, which aren't the same thing but are somewhat overlapping issues
We'll soon (maybe next year) also show that some of the 85+ KG of legal papers sent our way are computer-generated garbage, which might run afoul of some rules
