Microsoft's true battlefront against Open Source
All the recent huss and fuss over Microsoft's patent FUD campaign and their "we will sue you unless you pay us grievous amounts of cash" threatening of Linux is only the tip of the iceberg in a much larger war. A war that, interestingly enough, started about 3 years ago. Not the total war on Linux. Just this particular battle. And I must say, Linux is losing this one right now. It's been caught in a surprise attack it wasn't expecting and because of that several of its strongholds have been overrun. That's not to say that Linux is done for. Far from it. If anything, this latest stage in the battle has done the one thing that Microsoft least intended and most definitely didn't want.
It's making Linux and Open Source stronger.
But let's get down to why the Open Source community is momentarily on its heels.
This particular battle started, as I said, about three years ago. If you're wondering where I got that number, it's just an arbitrary guess based on certain facts from the business world. Most of the sudden announcements by Xandros, Novell and most recently Linspire, all seem like they came out of the blue and these companies just capitulated at the first patent rantings of Microsoft. heh. Microsoft would love it if that were true.
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