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ZDNet: The Fair-Weather “Friends of Linux”

“I just finished reading John Carroll’s article Why Microsoft
won’t assault Linux and while I agree with his conclusion, I don’t
agree with his reasoning. John opens up suggesting that a ‘full
legal assault’ on Linux would be self-defeating. I don’t think so
but I do think that filing suit against RedHat would be an
unnecessary waste of Microsoft’s time and money.

“I would like to dispense with his first point: Patents cut both
ways…”

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