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Microsoft has the gall to be real jerks.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 1094923390

Sheesh, the common things you're able to patent never stop amazing me. I really hate software patents and all companies that make a business strategy of collecting and enforcing them...

Jelle wrote:Sheesh, the common things you're able to patent never stop amazing me. I really hate software patents and all companies that make a business strategy of collecting and enforcing them...

+1 on everything you said. The USPTO and software patents in general are all pure bullshit. I don't care what people say about Microsoft's CodePlex, Mono, and anything else Microsoft claims to do in the guise of "good faith to free and open source software." Microsoft is no friend of FLOSS.

Exactly, they may try to put on sheep's clothing, but when something like this happens it's immediately obvious where their intentions really lie. There's been a lot of discussion about ms trying to be nicer to the floss community, but their business model simply doesn't allow them to be any shade of nice.