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MS Web Services IP is NOT ASSERTABLE!
The reason MS is allegedly making nice is because they know their alleged IP is completely unassertable.

Not only are their patents and claims largely spurious, they know that the moment they sued anyone, they'd be torn to shreds by hundreds of suits against them all a firestorm of assaults against their alleged IP.

MS has been losing IP suits in the past couple of years, you might notice.

Ballmer might as tell the EU that he won't sue the union for using the metric system. "You know, you people, MS has had the metric system included in Excel for close to a decade WITHOUT ONCE ASKING FOR ROYALTIES," he would say before being laughed out of the room.

ZDNet really needs to look coldly at the claims of this vendor.

Follow-up story idea: call 30 intellectual property attorneys and ask them, hey, professor what *would* happen if MS actually tried to assert the IP it claims it is giving away to the world.

Once you have the answer to that - and I think anyone with a heartbeat would know - you can move onto murkier questions, like what are these grinning hyenas up to with this tactic.

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Posted by: Likewow   Posted on: 09/18/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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For any company opening up their patents  Boot_Agnostic | 09/15/06
I doubt they will bait and switch  exohuman | 09/15/06
I would guess so  Boot_Agnostic | 09/15/06
I wondered that myself...  rapson | 09/15/06
Not smarter.  nomorems | 09/15/06
With everything..  Patrick Jones | 09/15/06
It's my understanding...  rapson | 09/15/06
Open-Source Projects:  d,duffer@... | 03/20/08
Great news  opensourcepro | 09/15/06
Is open source getting to Microsoft?  Loverock Davidson | 09/15/06
In other words...  Zeppo9191 | 09/15/06
MS on the right track ...  George Mitchell | 09/15/06
JUST ANOTHER M$ TRICK  Linux Geek | 09/15/06
Shut up, fool  James T. Kirk | 09/15/06
You've been "Geeked"  John Zern | 09/15/06
MS & open source  imguessing | 09/15/06
True  John Zern | 09/15/06
There was a time...  D. T. Schmitz | 09/15/06
A pledge is nothing.  nomorems | 09/15/06
Oh come on now!  Linux User 147560 | 09/15/06
http://blog.davestechshop.net/Default.aspx  davestechshop | 09/16/06
Phone-Computing and Virtualization Requies this.  mighetto | 09/18/06
You have been PWNED by M$ again  Old Timer 8080 | 09/18/06
MS Web Services IP is NOT ASSERTABLE!  Likewow | 09/18/06
Microsoft is Now Funding Open Source  hinkel@... | 09/18/06
You've been HOMEROWED  Boot_Agnostic | 09/19/06

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