Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 21st of September 2011 12:08:18 AM
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In the latest news from the tech world's ongoing global hunt to find someone to sue over/deal with on patents, Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with Casio.
The "broad, multiyear" contract, which neither party will put a price to, will help protect Casio devices that use Linux. While Linux is supposed to be open source, Microsoft has claimed since 2007 that more than 235 of its patents are violated by the project.
In the last four years, the software giant has been quietly threatening legal action for any Linux-using company that refuses to sign patent deals with it. Amazon, Novell, Linspire, TurboLinux and Xandros have all put their X on the dotted line. Others, like satnav maker TomTom, ended up in court, but eventually settled.
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I wish Microsoft would go
I wish Microsoft would go bankrupt and go out of business forever.
Every tax payer is funding this/
Due to the monopoly that Microsoft has every time you pay your taxes some of that money goes to Microsoft, some of that money is possibly going towards the legal costs of attacking Linux.
That monopoly means that police, schools, hospitals, libraries use Windows (even though there is no need to - why the hell do police need to use Windows pc's... Are they playing DirectX games ?)
Microsoft are a huge example of why monopolies are a bad idea. Microsoft existence is preventing the advancement of computing as a science... they are hindering mankind advancing as a race (unless you count WGA + clippy)
step away from the tinfoil hat
You're delusional beyond belief.
I agree
Actually, I agree with yossarianuk. For example my country's defense ministry officially considers any open-source application insecure and as a result no open-source can be present in any governmental office. And guess what, Microsoft just made a new deal with the government a few months ago.
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Now, tell me that my money doesn't go to MS, even if I didn't used anything made by MS since I left college. (except my keyboard and mouse
Am I .... Who do you think
Am I ....
Who do you think pays for computers for schools, police, hospitals (MS did a deal with the NHS a few year ago). Our navy did a deal also - ironically a fleet was grounded just months after converting from unix to windows...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/royal_navy_email_virus_outage/
Its not like the police NEED to use Windows - they may have about 15 years ago but not now.
Since they have established their monopoly they use any underhand (and arguably illegal) tactic to prevent competition from existing.
i.e :- They have not really changed from the 90's and the famous Halloween files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents (this shows exactly what sort of company they really are)
Lobbying governments (such as their failed attempt at the European software patent laws)
working with repressive regimes - as long as the regime does not use opensource software:-
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2011/09/05/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former-tunisian-regime-40093837/
This hardly seems ethical / fair play seeing as MY money is helping fund them.
At least if my tax money went to a Linux company the changes they would create would benefit everybody (i.e the entire world - or at least the opensource world) rather than one nasty American company.
Even today look at this :-
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html - keep competition via the bios
Then there is the fact that they have the cash to create bullshit made up fact studies such as 'get the facts (lies)'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_related_to_Microsoft#.22Get_the_Facts.22
They even have enough money to pay other companies to launch a legal attack on Linux - surely some of this has to be illegal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies#Microsoft_funding_of_SCO_controversy