Microsoft wants royalties from FOSS

[Sy Ali]

On 5/13/07, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   "Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're
> being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them."
>
>   How's this for a response...
>   "Filename, version, and line number please, Mr. McBride"

Skimming through the article and pondering a bit.. there are some
references to doing such strangeness as patenting _methods_.  I wonder
if Microsoft gathered such patents as "using email to communicate bug
reports" ..

I'd bet that a lot of non-FOSS interests would also be threatened if
specific patents were described.
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