Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? 644
Glyn Moody writes "Microsoft has filed a suit against TomTom, 'alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents — including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel.' What's interesting is that the intellectual property lawyer behind the move, Horacio Gutierrez, has just been promoted to the rank of corporate vice president at Microsoft. Is this his way of announcing that he intends going on the attack against Linux?"
And now we know why Bill G's house is underground! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Actual complaint: (Score:4, Funny)
That settles it.
I'm going to file a patent for "something cool you can do with technology".
I'll make millions.
Re:FAT32 patents (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux cannot be stopped... (Score:1, Funny)
He could be the victim of a faulty t key.
Re:FAT32 patents (Score:5, Funny)
They're on the way, probably.
Probably. Because when you can't produce value, then you're down to monetizing your patent portfolio.
Bring it, Monkeyzilla!
Re:Actual complaint: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The 3 patents (Score:1, Funny)
Linux's support of NTFS is essentially a joke
Linux has full read/write support for NTFS volumes.
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ [ntfs-3g.org]
What exactly is funny about this?
Re:Linux cannot be stopped... (Score:5, Funny)
I know suspend/resume on Linux isn't the best supported feature, but it cannot be stopped???!!! Look at me on a freshly installed bash 4.0:
# shutdown -h now
See, it can be stopped perfe
Re:The right answer to this (Score:3, Funny)