Ballmer Threatens To Sue Distros

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Some say hot air, others say let's get this over with, others feel M$ is right:

http://news.com.com/Ballmer+repeats+thr ... g=nefd.top

I want them to sue--the combined forces of IBM, HP, and others might the first nail in the coffin.

[[PX]IronFist]

Well they centinly have the right to enforce their patents...if they can prove that they are relevent.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Well, that's the big "if" seeing as how:

1. the code wouldn't have been stolen as it wouldn't work on a *nix machine
2. anything remotely close would have been reverse engineered at the worst
3. Ballmer's not naming patents so it's bull$hit

But, then again, I'm not a big fan of patents

[Ghost [PX]]

Ballmer is blowing hot air. He never names the patents that are being infringed upon. If they actually had evidence that distros were using M$ code, they'd be in court already.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Actually, in relation to my point #1, Windows code can actually run on Linux now. I had forgotten that VB can now interact with Mono and it will be compiled for Linux.

But I still think Ballmer's a tool. Anybody remember "Developers.....developers....DEVELOPERS!!!!"?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Software patents in question:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Supreme ... 1172097039

If M$ brings about the fact that software patents are invalid, I will laugh.....a lot.........for a very long time.

[[PX]Kal Bob]

So they say that they are going to sue people that don't respect their patents.
Then they say I court that software cannot be patented.

So they are not going to sue since they have no patents? I should take some law courses.. this is all so confusing!