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Yeah, I'm not really afraid of Microsoft -- especially if I don't ship a product based on Linux or Android. And patent trolls aren't going to agree to this ple
by crenshaw 15y ago
Yeah, I'm not really afraid of Microsoft -- especially if I don't ship a product based on Linux or Android. And patent trolls aren't going to agree to this pledge.
Patent trolls worry me the most. I'd like to see a pledge around having the tech community pool together against patent trolls. Not sure how you'd do it, but I'd like to see that.
- beagle3 15y agoyou should be worried about Microsoft: see the chilling effect case of virtualdub, a Windows-only software.
- crenshaw 15y agoThat doesn't scare me much. They were trying to reverse-engineer a MS file format. If I'm doing things like trying to reverse engineer Silverlight DRM or get around PatchGuard, or find a way to circumvent some limitation in a Windows SKU (like installing Media Center on Starter Edition) sure I'd be worried. But if I'm just building product that infringes a patent they have, I'm not worried.