Re: [flalug] Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 18:20:23 EDT

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On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:46:22PM -0400, tom smith wrote:
> How close is this to racketeering?
> Smitty
> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent

It's not very close. It passed racketeering a while ago. It has become
something even more ethically obscene.

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