Re:Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce
by motters on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @01:55PM
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I say this with some reluctance because I've written quite a lot of Mono/C# code, but to me this absolutely proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the software patent threat from Microsoft is real and not just some abstract academic debate. I think I'll be limiting or scaling down my use of .NET on linux in future as a consequence.
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> to me this absolutely proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the software patent threat from Microsoft is real and not just some abstract academic debate.
Honest question follows after the quote.
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/microsoft_sues_sale...
> "Although Microsoft has been a frequent target of patent-infringement claims itself, it's only the fourth time in its history that the Redmond company has filed a patent-infringement suit against a competitor, and the company has said in the past that it views such actions as a last resort when it has been unable to negotiate a licensing deal."
Do you use technology provided by (just throwing out names) Google, Apple, HTC, Oracle, etc.? Have they proven to be less litigious?
If you do use technology provided by other companies, are you also planning on scaling back their use?
I'm thinking in terms of programming languages rather than products from particular companies. Recently I've gone back to using C/C++ and might also start using Python. As far as I know there are no software patent issues with those languages.