Comments

• pcole

  2008-09-09 11:45:49

  Been following this action; it has been an eye opener.
  
  Normal everyday folks, trying to do their work only to be blindsided by patent trolls with a suspicion. Monopolies & patent trolls - labia to sphincter affair. Just another example indicating swpatents should not exist.
  
  pcole; you're under arrest for voicing the same idea Roy has; even though yours is in spanish and Roy's is in english.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-09-09 11:52:00

  I think it serves as a good example of the troll/titian tie-up, whereby a big corporation is afraid of ruining its public image, so it recruits a troll. Think about Microsoft and Acacia, which absorbed Microsoft employees before the action against GNU/Linux.

• pcole

  2008-09-09 12:59:12

  How the worm turns - Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his executives, Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent to “take as much of our profits as they want.”
  
  If this reptile was telling the truth, he would give the FSF custody of MS swpats.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-09-09 13:05:12

  He says a lot of hypocritical things. I'm writing a post at the moment about pot Microsoft accusing kettle Google of being a monopoly -- a dangerous monopoly.