LordoftheMonkeys wrote:
Microsoft has been trying to kill Linux ever since Steve Ballmer became CEO. They claimed a bunch of patents for ideas that they didn't come up with and that used to be in the public domain so that they could have intellectual property for Linux to infringe on, thereby making it and other alternative software illegal. They paid SCO to sue IBM for producing Linux a few years ago, but this resulted in SCO going bankrupt. But it's possible that they will carry out another concentrated campaign of lawsuits to try to outlaw Linux and probably Unix in general, making Windows the only OS and forcing just about every company and organization to pay thousands of dollars to restructure their servers, money that will most likely go into Steve Ballmer's already bloated pocket. What do you think will happen?
The problem is that Microsoft hasn't told anyone which patents Linux supposedly infringes on and are too scared to because they know that the Linux community can potentially code their way around any prospective patents. However, in order to file any lawsuit of any kind, they have to release which patents are being infringed upon.
Last edited by Jono on 30 Jun 2010, 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.