Love to see Microsoft start a patent war with IBM.

Post #272,535

11/7/06 9:55:13 PM

Linux is BIG with IBM.

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Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.

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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.

Post #272,539

by Andrew Grygus

11/7/06 10:16:50 PM

IBM would probably charge that Microsoft's . . .

. . executive washroom keys infringe an IBM patent - and document the infringement.

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Post #272,542

by imric

11/7/06 10:42:10 PM

Hey - If Ballmer didn't empty out every once in a while...

...the results would be BAD. He's full of enough of it NOW!

Imric's Tips for Living

Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.

Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.

Post #272,546

by JayMehaffey

11/7/06 11:16:57 PM

They would have to be out of their minds

Microsoft is a lot of things, but brain dead stupid is very rarely one of them.

Jay

Post #272,550

by Andrew Grygus

11/7/06 11:37:10 PM

And on the Linux front, they've already laid some . . .

. . groundwork, having carefully gathered solid evidence of Microsoft's deliberate efforts to funnel money to SCO Group to support their legal attack against Linux. Plausable deniability didn't work because the guy they hoodwinked into investing millions in SCO Group voluntarily spilled the beans, naming names, dates and times.

And speaking of spilling the beans, [link|http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061104213326242|Ransom Love] has declared for IBM, completely and utterly destroying any hope the SCO Group might have had that they had a ghost of a chance of making a case. Ransom Love was CEO of Caldera when the whole SCO asset purchase went down. A case can now easily be made that SCO Group filed frivolous lawsuits with complete knowledge they were based on lies.

Now that is sweet, sweet vengence. It was Darl McBride who displaced Ransom Love at Caldera and renamed it The SCO Group. He must have really enjoyed reaming Darl.

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Post #272,653

by Ashton

11/8/06 8:05:52 PM

Meanwhile, the plebs are being fed

[link|http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/index.php?p=1617|... the Velvet Fog?]

I see.. I see..

Tarantulas in a bottle; one of them has a nano-AK47 strapped to a hind leg - the other thinks the safety catch is on. Course I grok only a fraction of the Beast's tactics - is this one new levels of depravity, masquerading-as fecklessness?

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