Comments on: Another Company Affiliated with Microsoft Sues Red Hat Using Software Patents

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:27:52 +0000

I mean, of course, against users ;-p Specifically internal software developers at companies, who are the 95% of developers who *don’t* work on shrinkwrapped software.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:17:33 +0000

.NET faces an uphill battle and no-one takes it seriously.

Must you really insult Novell?

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:00:09 +0000

Note that this is two competitors for the price of one: Red Hat and Java. In real commercial server use, Java is everywhere. .NET faces an uphill battle and no-one takes it seriously.

By: Dan O'Brian

Dan O'Brian — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:54:05 +0000

Don’t you know? Microsoft are like the Illuminati, they are everywhere and they are nowhere. They control everything.

By: Gentoo User

Gentoo User — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:10:05 +0000

I noticed the other day you wrote an entire post based on Slashdot comments (some of which I think you later mentioned you had modded up), so here's an interesting one I noticed on the discussion of this topic over there this morning. To quote (because it's really good):

Yay for selective quoting! (Score:5, Informative) ... on Wednesday March 04, @08:44AM (#27065889) "Software Tree's partners include Microsoft, IBM, Borland, and Sun" Fixed that for you.

Another, as a reply to that one:

Only their website doesn't even mention Microsoft as a partner. IBM, Borland, Sun and Oracle are mentioned as partners, though, with contact details. What was the intention of mentioning Microsoft and leaving out those partners? Is Microsoft a business partner at all? I hate software patents. But summaries like this blatantly trying to skew facts to weasel in hints of a grand Microsoft conspiracy does the fight against software patents disservice. What a crook. Bad! I had to look twice because I fully expected this to be a "kdawson". Not this time, though.

I assume these people must work for Microsoft, as you are keen on quickly pointing out in cases like these.