Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Published May 14th, 2007 in Free Software, Upfront News
If we were in the cold war, it would be the same as if the United States or Russia were pushing the red button. That destructive button. A nuclear bomb.
In the virtual world, something similar happened. Microsoft stroked their patent arsenal towards Linux and, overall, the Free Software community. Overall, these are the claims:
- 42 patents infringed by Linux
- 65 patents infringed by GNU/Linux UI (menus, toolbars, etc)
- 45 patents infringed by OpenOffice.org
- 15 patents infringed by email programs
- 68 patents infringed by several other programs
I don’t know what’s going to happen. I do wish companies related to Linux do something and sue Microsoft to oblivion. IBM, Redhat, Novell, Sun, Oracle and, perhaps, Google.
The world would be definitely a better place without Microsoft.
Read on Software Livre no Sapo via Rui Seabra
P.S. - The title was a stolen idea from Rui Seabra @ Software Livre. Credits to him.
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