On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, James wrote:

> Nice article. Although if Microsoft try's to make .Net proprietary without
> any Open(Source) standards, it will fail. Proprietary software, hardware,
> networking (protocols), just has never worked out and never will.

The way I read it the main idea of this article is: let open source set up
their software clones, then when everyone is comfortable using this on the
servers we will tell the servers that they can only run this on M$ or get
out of .Net because we have a patent and will see them in court. If the
client base is sufficiently commited, then they will have to switch to M$
to keep the clients happy.

Patrick

>
> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 10:28 pm, you wrote:
> > OpenSource, Patents, and M$
> >
> >
> >
> > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010828/tc/microsoft_patents_a_threat_to_o
> >p en_source_1.html
> >
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