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posted by n1 on Saturday March 12 2016, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the enemy-within dept.

Simon Phipps comments on Microsoft's latest antics in regards to open source. Specifically, while the public is distracted by show, Microsoft is shaking down the Android/Linux and GNU/Linux communities for patent licenses.

Phipps asserts that it's time for them to put up or shut up by either joining the OIN or admitting that they can't be trusted in the open source community they now claim to love.

Roy Schestowitz has some harsher words on the same topic, noting that the media is ignoring malicious actions in favor of paying attention to the public relations campaign.

While the OIN cannot protect against NPE's aka patent trolls, it is created for just this kind of situation and choosing to join -- or not -- sends a very clear message about their intentions towards the community.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 12 2016, @06:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 12 2016, @06:32PM (#317400)

    To be fair, it is a rather blatant paraphrasing of a well-known trolling point used by Micro$oft shills going back to the early days of the now defunct Groklaw [groklaw.net]. For that alone, it ought to be scored at -1 whether it was posted on purpose or out of sheer ignorance.

    Then it tries to obfuscate and confuse the issues by going on about "intellectual property" while everyone else is talking about patents and in particular software patents [dwheeler.com]. H's another known trolling move.

    Next, for now, Micro$oft has been keeping fairly secret about the specific patents that it has been threatening companies with. Hence some of the motivation for pursuing action under the R.I.C.O. Act as suggested above.

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