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It might be bitter-sweet, since MS funded the SCO patent-troll mission, and would be nice to give them a taste of their own medicine; but you have to remember,
by mahmud 17y ago
It might be bitter-sweet, since MS funded the SCO patent-troll mission, and would be nice to give them a taste of their own medicine; but you have to remember, Microsoft invented AJAX. It's just karmically wrong.
- ajross 17y agoSCO wasn't suing over patents. It was a copyright thing over the Unix source code. MS has actually been comparatively benign with their patent behavior over the years. The FAT thing is the only example I can think of where they've used one agressively. Regardless, if something is wrong it's wrong. Our goal here should be getting the patent system to stop sucking, not using it as a weapon of schadenfreude against companies we don't like.