[TriLUG] Classic Microsoft Villiany?

[Alexander Ray]

AST is in the business of grabbing patents, but it looks like they're
on the 'lesser evil' scale of things ('catch and release' vs 'catch
and keep').

~Alex

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Dave Moody <davethebald at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My mistake - I meant AST.  Didn't Microsoft know who AST was?  Seems unlikely that they are that incompetent.  (On the other hand, they are no very good at software, maybe that extends to legal stuff too).
>
> --- On Sat, 9/12/09, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Classic Microsoft Villiany?
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 9:24 AM
>
> OIN wasn't invited to the sale, but instead, another company (AST)
> bought the patents, and then sold them to OIN.  Presumably
> pre-arranged.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Dave Moody <davethebald at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Not to play devil's advocate, but how do we explain Microsoft selling the patents to OIN if Microsoft knew OIN would not do what Microsoft  purportedly wanted, to hassle Linux?  Is Microsoft incompetently evil?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> --- On Fri, 9/11/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
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>> From: James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com>
>> Subject: [TriLUG] Classic Microsoft Villiany?
>> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
>> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:39 PM
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>> Triluggers,
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>>
>> Just checking my RSS feed for today. Didn't check it yesterday, so I
>> had to catch up. Usually that means reading the headlines and going
>> forward. This Headline caught my attention:
>>
>> Headline:  Microsoft and A Patent Checkmate of My Dreams
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>> Link:  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090908164954318
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>> Some companies can never change :-(
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