und genauer: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit041.html ... This patent stuff is all a sham in any case. Microsoft will not sue the Linux community or Linux customers over patents. IBM's considers Linux critical and strategic to its server plans all the way from entry level to mainframes. Attacking Linux with patents would be a direct attack on IBM and IBM has more patents than God. They probably have a patent on "Using a Computer to Develop Software" somewhere in their collection. Microsoft is many things but suicidal is not one of them. ...
Es ist gang und gäbe, dass Firmen Patente "austauschen", also sich gegenseitig erpressen, es nicht einzusetzen. Und IBM ist so alt, dass sie sicher noch so ein Patent irgendwo haben wie oben erwähnt
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This patent stuff is all a sham in any case. Microsoft will not sue the Linux community or Linux customers over patents. IBM's considers Linux critical and strategic to its server plans all the way from entry level to mainframes. Attacking Linux with patents would be a direct attack on IBM and IBM has more patents than God. They probably have a patent on "Using a Computer to Develop Software" somewhere in their collection. Microsoft is many things but suicidal is not one of them.
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Es ist gang und gäbe, dass Firmen Patente "austauschen", also sich gegenseitig erpressen, es nicht einzusetzen. Und IBM ist so alt, dass sie sicher noch so ein Patent irgendwo haben wie oben erwähnt