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Say what you will about Microsoft and its products, but you have to admit the company has a particular skill at making money. Take Android, for example. Instead of using the wildly successful mobile platform as an example and a model for its own lackluster efforts in that arena, Redmond has apparently opted instead to make its competitor a friend — a money-making friend, that is.
Well, it’s been another exciting week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the many seismic shifts emanating from the vicinity of Redmond. There was the end of the Justice Department’s antitrust oversight of Microsoft, marking the end of a historic case. There was also its wildly extravagant purchase of Skype, the implications of which still have observers reeling.
Well, it’s been another exciting week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the many seismic shifts emanating from the vicinity of Redmond. There was the end of the Justice Department’s antitrust oversight of Microsoft, marking the end of a historic case. There was also its wildly extravagant purchase of Skype, the implications of which still have observers reeling.
Well, it’s been another wild week here in the Linux blogosphere, what with the post-Natty reverberations, the departure of Canonical’s CTO, and the ongoing open source debacle that is Oracle. Then, of course, there was Star Wars Day — which, as it turned out, coincided with the Free Software Foundation’s Day Against DRM.
Hardly a week goes by here in the Linux community without some company or other claiming that Linux and everyone who uses it is violating their patent — or patents, more frequently.
Not uncommonly, it’s Microsoft doing the suing. Most recently, however, it was Bedrock Computer Technologies, a company — many would say "patent troll" instead — that has apparently taken it upon itself to sue not just Google, but many more.