>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:59 am, in message
<20060112115922.3n0v8xuhtlog04c4@webmail.heavysystems.com>,
rmorgan@heavysystems.com wrote:
> With the tens of billions of dollars they have in the bank, I believe MS
> could
> afford to kill Linux and absorb the resulting antitrust fines. As long as
> 90%
> of desktops use MS technology they're not going anywhere.
>
> Given Ballmer's enjoyment of killing things, I would not be surprised
> to see MS
> try to leverage their patents against Linux. Look at how they've been so
> successful in preventing NTFS write support?
>
Last I looked IBM, Novell, and others have just a "few" patents that could start a war in the intellectual property space and send MS scrambling on some key features inside of a good number of M$'s products.
I don't have any problem writing to silly NTFS mounts where I have to...I have more problems with everyone one else wanting to write to them! Of course, I would NEVER use NTFS or FAT for any production data...way too much risk for my blood.
>
>
> Quoting Steven Buehler <swbuehler@gmail.com>:
>
>> Microsoft would be suicidal to attempt to enforce the patent, given its
>> already tenuous antitrust situation.
>>
>
Well...the US Gov pretty much caved in on the antitrust thing with MS...not so sure it's very tenuous from my perspective.
JP
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