Comments on: Microsoft: Linux Infringes Our Patents, But We’re Too Busy To Disclose Them

By: Let's Help Microsoft Find Linux Patent Infringements - HTNet

Let's Help Microsoft Find Linux Patent Infringements - HTNet — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:52 +0000

[...] our buddies at Redmond are apparently too busy and gentlemanly to name the patents that the bad guys behind Linux have apparently infringed; I’ve decided to help them… [...]

By: legalrap

legalrap — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:19:35 +0000

That is a misquote. Here is the actual quote:
“Most people familiar with patents know it’s standard operating procedure not to go out and list the patents you have because of the administrative work required,” said attorney Jim Markwith with Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs. “The response that it would invoke would be administratively impossible to work with. You won’t see any company list the patents they have. Even those they are actively licensing or cross licensing.”

By: mypapit

mypapit — Sat, 26 May 2007 11:46:13 +0000

lol, classic FUD, they dont want corporate users to adopt linux as it creates serious competition

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:37:38 +0000

Yep, agree… they probably even patented “Hello World”

By: Dabido

Dabido — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:07:26 +0000

Yeah, how do they know there is 235 infringements if they’re too bust to even name one. Surely if they’ve found even ONE they’d be able to name what it was!
I think the problem is all the infringing patents possibly have prior art on them, and as such would nullify MS’s patents if they were revealed.