16 May
2007
16 May
'07
1:21 a.m.
On 5/15/07, Earle Beason [email protected] wrote:
Anybody else know of any possible patents that could have been violated by the open source project as Microsoft has claimed?
MS isn't going to tell. Doing so will allow developers to code around them, or will allow the Software Freedom Law Center to work to prove the patent invalid. They will just use this FUD to extort money from large weenie companies who are scared of legal threats. By revealing exactly what patents are infringed, they open the door to people working very quickly to remove the infringing parts, and thus making the code base immune from further MS claims on those patents.
Jon.