Comment Re:Patents? (Score 1) 223
> Then you should have no problems finding a few examples that illustrates Microsofts visceral hatred of open source (your words).
LOL alternate universes exist and you come from one. Or you troll very badly. Nice to see how a blatant troll collects mod points.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (...) calls Linux "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
But these are words from a guy prone to monkey dance. Let's see.
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldnâ(TM)t try and make the âoeACPIâ extensions somehow Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
But wait, poor Gates just wants it to be windows specific not to boycott FOSS, right?
Except that the opposite happened:
Some of us remember the story of why Linux kernel responds "False" when ACPI BIOS asks if the operating system is Linux. We have found yet another case where mimicking the Windows behavior instead of writing to the spec is the right choice if you just want your machine to work properly
What about the 50million cash to SCO?