Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux? 377
kripkenstein noted an Interview with Jeremy Allison where the interviewer asks 'One of the persistent rumors that's going around is that certain large IT customers have already been paying Microsoft for patent licensing to cover their use of Linux, Samba and other free software projects.' and Jeremy responds
"Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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Rocco and Knuckles will be by to pick up the envelope.
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Yay Rumors!! (Score:4, Funny)
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The patent holders will be first against the wall when revolution comes!
Slashdot: where posts using the "f-word" and threatening mass murder get modded "Insightful."
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I regret to inform you that the firm which I represent has acquired a patent on "the desire of shooting people in the motherfucking head" technology, which you've included in your most recent post to Slash Dot.
The licensing fee for this technology is $100, however the penalty fee for utilizing the technology without first having acquired a license is $900, so we will be collecting $1,000 from you post haste.
Re:Yay Rumors!! (Score:3, Funny)
If we don't do something soon, Necrosaro may awake!!! Run for your lives!
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Mmm, burrito.
Re:Everyone, out of the pool!!! (Score:1, Funny)
IT'S GOT SOFTWARE PATENTS
also, fuck you lameness filter, sometimes yelling is appropriate you durps
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"I want system-modal Ok-Cancel dialogs to stop being buried under other dialogs," said the statement released by the man. "I want spyware completely removed from my computer and I want my registry to be less fragile."
"But most of all, I want Clippy back in MS Office. Clippy would have helped me write a better list of hostage-taker's demands."
Sharing goes both ways! (Score:1, Funny)
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