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Microsoft Putting Patent Traps Inside Linux While Blackmailing Companies Using Patents Associated With These Traps

"I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue"

--Robert Scoble, former Microsoft evangelist



Summary: In an effort to make exFAT (a patent trap) the 'industry standard', even inside Linux, Microsoft now wants exFAT inside the very heart of Linux and people are pushing back

With food came the appetite and shortly after being allowed into a secretive circulation of flaw information -- the kind of information former Microsoft employees use to come up with brands, logos, buzzwords and Web sites to hype up and profit from Linux and FOSS bugs (e.g. "VENOM" and "Heartbleed" [1, 2] -- it's already progressing even further. Suffice to say, corporate media isn't interested in Microsoft's bad history (it's just spamming us 24/7 with "Microsoft loves Linux" revisionism).



Michael Larabel has taken note (as recently as yesterday evening) of filesystem guru Ted Ts'o writing: "Personally, if Microsoft is going to be unfriendly about not wanting others to use their file system technology by making patent claims, why should we reward them by making their file system better by improving its interoperability? (My personal opinion only.)" (those last 4 words are an expression of fear of association, like bullying through one's boss/employer)

It was a discussion among some Microsoft people and former Novell people. They're still up to no good. They're not serving Linux; they serve Microsoft, which promotes Windows.

"It was a discussion among some Microsoft people and former Novell people. They're still up to no good. They're not serving Linux; they serve Microsoft, which promotes Windows."Ted Ts'o is not a person who trusts Microsoft (never did!) and the same person who tried to portray Torvalds as sexist (back when the person was female, not male) Ted Ts'o was spun as a "rape apologist" based on some very old message -- obviously taken out of context to make Ted Ts'o like an an abominable, unemployable person. We recently recalled and highlighted issues related to this [1, 2].

At the moment Microsoft charges patent tax through companies like Tuxera, so the point raised by Ted Ts'o is absolutely legitimate. But if Microsoft's entryism inside Linux is working as expected/hoped, even senior and prominent developers like Ted Ts'o can be ousted or at least silenced somehow. Microsoft is now officially inserting patent traps into the kernel used on billions on chips. Sometimes it feels like the kernel is being 'sold' to Microsoft by Zemlin et al at the Linux Foundation (they became millionaires by doing so). It often feels, now with people like Cox gone, like the Foundation is nothing but the corporate cabal its Board has become (Microsoft, Oracle and so on). First they kicked out community members, then their journalists and editors. So what's left? Peripheral PR people, 3 developers on the payroll and an operation that 'sells' (passes) Linux+FOSS code to surveillance companies. In this particular case they hope to impede ongoing efforts to replace exFAT with non-Microsoft things. What we see here is how Microsoft uses its 'moles' inside Linux (the kernel) to make Microsoft 'the standard'. It's not hard to achieve when one 'controls' both Windows and Linux, where the latter is a lot more widely deployed.

"There are lots of angry comments about this in Phoronix right now (almost 50, tenfold the usual/average)."Microsoft's participation was all about pushing proprietary things of Microsoft. Just as one would expect...

Larabel brought up OIN, but even after joining OIN Microsoft is not only threatening but also suing using patents, claiming the usual claims. It demands billions of dollars for patents. And yes, it's about Linux and Android.

EEE moves so, so very fast inside Linux. There are lots of angry comments about this in Phoronix right now (almost 50, tenfold the usual/average).

"He [Bill Gates] is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry."

--Gary Kildall

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