Doesn't a patent holder have to respond in a reasonable amount of time
to patent infringements?  I can't believe MS isn't aware of .gnu and
mono.

Patrick Fleming wrote:
> 
> 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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