HERE IS AN old quote worth reminiscing [PDF]:

MR. ALLCHIN: And there’s going to be a patent lawsuit on Linux. It’s bound to happen. I’m just asking -not and the patent lawsuit won’t really be about the license. It will be simply, "Hey, these guys took intellectual property." And whether the lawsuit comes from Wind River or in X, Y, Z, there’s going to be one. Guaranteed. As I sit here today, I will guarantee you at some point there's going to be a challenge about the patents. Not about the license per se.

MR. MARTIN: Class action lawsuit.

The full text is here.

Also related to this:

• Microsoft Studies How to Use Intellectual Property Against GNU/Linux
• What Was Microsoft's “Big Bet” Post Novell-SCO (2002)?

Well, it finally happened last week. Pamela Jones was right when she said that Microsoft would be the next SCO Group. We all know what happened to SCO. ⬆

November 2008, Microsoft is now trading under $16