Upgrading to Firefox 2.0?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:25:14PM -0500, Mike Kallies wrote:
> Any patent abuses would extend beyond SuSE and into all other distros.
> The GPL and the Linux marketplace won't let MS use patents
> destructively.
> 
> Besides, not to imply that Microsoft is not evil, but does anyone have
> any examples of Microsoft ever abusing their patent portfolio?  Or
> even Microsoft using lawsuits aggressively?

A few years ago they discovered they had a patent on something to do
with FAT, so they started demanding royalties from digital camera makers
and such.  I believe the patent was rather quickly found to be invalid
and hence canceled.  They tried though.

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