[Cialug] So who didn't see this one coming?

[Brandon Griffis]

I doubt they're going after any projects.  In everything I've read from
Balmer he's not once used the word patient or copyright, it's always "IP".
I think we're just talking about FUD threats.  The problem is that Novell
has lent those threats credibility by making this deal.

-G

On 11/17/06, Tony Jeffries <ajeffri at loopysite.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:24, Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> <snip>
> > My concern is Microsoft might never attack property in The Kernel (tm),
> > as wayyy too many companies are involved in it's development, but it
> > would be relatively easy to attack some of the key applications that
> > make running linux worthwhile.
>
> My thought is that, as someone else said, they're going after Samba, or
> that they're going after OpenOffice.
>
> Those are the two I'm concerned about.
>
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