http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/14/micro … fortune_redhat/
To say that Steve Ballmer is a knob defines all the others that ever existed as 'really nice people'. He is the mother of all knobs. The motherknob if you will.
The software maker, as you've no doubt heard, placed a terse article with the publication. In the piece, both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and top lawyer Brad Smith go after the free/open source crowd, saying 235 Redmond patents have been violated - 42 of them in the Linux kernel, 65 in the GUI (graphical user interface), 45 in OpenOffice, 15 in e-mail and another 68 scattered across various other packages.
Patents, schmatents. I've never been thinking highly of patents since Amazon patented "one-click shopping".
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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
wrote:I've never been thinking highly of patents since Amazon patented "one-click shopping".
Shouldn't that be "I've never been thinking highly of the US Patent Office ..."?
Patents are fine, but sometimes the procedures for awarding a patent can be faulty.
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wrote:Shouldn't that be "I've never been thinking highly of the US Patent Office ..."?
Ah, you're correct. I should have phrased it better.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
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