How can Linux users get away with using an operating system that violates Microsoft patents?
Linux is in violation of nearly 300 patents owned by Microsoft but the distributors and users of Linux haven’t paid a single cent in royalties to Microsoft. In fact, a lot of distributors of Linux offer their OS for free so the users are just as bad as software pirates who are causing Microsoft to lose money and have to charge more for people who legally buy Microsoft Windows instead of people who use Linux or a bootlegged copy of Windows. Why is it legal for Linux to do this?
Here’s a source to an older article. I can’t remember the link from PC World that indicates that Linux is in violation of at least 253 patents owned by Microsoft.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
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This is HILARIOUS
The FACT is almost everything that Microsoft features on their Windows platform is NOT developed by themselves. Instead it is either COPIED from open source or used from software developed by others (OFTEN WITHOUT LICENCE) such are the questionable dealings of the software giant. Microsoft make money out of others without scruples or without asking permission as they know if they were to be challenged the claimant would be CRUSHED in court by their lawyers.
There is also the uncomfortable Microsoft and Novell buyout which is not good news for the Linux/UNIX community which is something we all saw coming when the initial cooperation deal was drawn up in around 2009
Microsoft led consortium buys Novell assets
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1900065/microsoft-led-consortium-buys-novell-assets
LUg.
What’s your source for this?
Where’d you hear that? Linux was written from scratch and people build off of what other people have made ("open source").
Microsoft claims that Linux violates some 253 of their patents, but they never say which ones. If it were true, why hasn’t Microsoft sued companies like RedHat?
Also, I utterly reject your equation of violating, with one’s own original work, a patent one has never seen or heard of with stealing someone else’s work. They are simply not comparable things.
as you own micorsft oprating system is based on a programing lauge any one can do that all they have to do is learn that
You are wrong in this assumption. There may be parts of the coding that are questionable. First off Linux is a Kernel, not an Operating System (it was an off shoot from UNIX). Your are judging your statements based on an article that was written over three years ago. Microsoft does not lose money because of Linux. No one stole Linux, therefore the Pirate part of your statement does not hold any water. Microsoft isn’t innocent from stealing something (the coding) that belonged to another business or company.
Ah yes, I remember when M$ made such claims! But wait, why is it that they don’t actually list the patents in question?
I will tell you why, M$ is also in violation of Linux Patents. When Red Hat challenged M$, M$ backed down. LMAO… you actually fell for the F.U.D., are you serious?
This has been going on for years, it’s nothing new. Microsoft has been using these tactics for a long time and they have never worked. They tried a "Linux is Anti-Capitalism and Anti-American" campaign about 3 years ago. Before that they used SCO to file a group of lawsuits against Linux.
They have filed suit after suit and haven’t ever been able to prove any of the claims they are making. I what to know exactly which patents they are claiming to have. From the article they skirt around the issue over and over again.
What’s really funny? The Microsoft backbone all runs on FreeBSD. Hotmail, Their website… all of it is UNIX on the inside.
Yet another paid Microsoft drone spreading FUD.