Looks Like Microsoft is Ramping Up for Son of SCO | Linux Today

Looks Like Microsoft is Ramping Up for Son of SCO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 14, 2007

“You know all those nice things I said about the Microsoft
Development environment a couple of weeks ago? Well, I still stand
by them as a realistic opinion of the quality of the platform for
developers. However, today’s news brings the major reason you
should run away from depending on Microsoft technology like it had
a case of Ebola.

“The murmurs and worries about Microsoft’s ongoing patent gossip
campaign, which came to a roiling boil with the Novell deal, have
ended. Yep, no more rumors, just the plain reality that Microsoft
is going to take their portfolio of laughable patents and start
sticking it to the open source community legally, as spelled out in
the most recent Fortune…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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