This is why Novell should never have entered into such an agreement in the first place. Doing so acknowledges Microsoft's patent claims in the eyes of Redmond. Now, they'll try and hold this garbage over our heads. Software patents, and even patents themselves these days, are a joke. People are patenting stuff that was preexisting and developed elsewhere and even hardware patents have come to a point where a concept is patentable, even though no working model was ever produced. This is stifling competition and hurting the consumers.
--Alan Cox to Eric Raymond
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Betto
2008-10-21 02:31:17
http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377
Who knows who posted that comment. You might very well be (or asking people to) seeding other websites with these types of observations that fit yours, only to then use them as supporting arguments in your posts.
And if your buddies do that on Slashdot, who knows what else they're doing elsewhere. Probably "showing up M$ shills" or something, I'm sure.
When it comes to reactions on the internet (which I see you like to quote often), I wouldn't trust you or your friends any further than I can throw you. And I'm a beefy guy.