[Leaplist] is MS grabbing IP to protect it self or to threaten linux?

[patrick]

ray wrote:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132662-c,companynews/article.html 
> with all of the IP agreements that MS is making with Linux vendors I am
> beginning to wounder if MS is really just trying to grab legal access to
> IP that it has been using for years without permission?
> 
> just conspiracy no proof, but who knows as Windows is closed and no one
> can read the code to verify if MS is stealing IP as they have been
> caught in the past doing.
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Yeah, because the last time that multiple convicted felon pirate
Microsoft was in Court with a lawsuit about their theft of IP, using
products without paying for them, nor paying the previously agreed upon
royalties, was when all those colleges and Universities (Five of them,
AFAIK) won some $105 million in payments, and multiple penalties for the
 fraud.  That was in 2005.

But, stuff has changed, been improved... and there is a hell of a lot of
great code out there to be sucked up and used for their own gain!  Too
bad Microsoft doesn't like to pay for it, until the little guys spend 6
years in court, suing them!