James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> This patent mess leaves us with this:
> 
> - Incorporate.
> 
> - Make an honest attempt to find and pay royalties on code you use in your
> product.
> 
> - If contacted by patent holder, make an honest attempt to work something
> out.
> 
> - When it gets insane, fold up, bankrupt the company, sell the assets to
> your wife/cousin/friend, move the office, re-incorporate.
> 
> - Repeat as needed.
> 
> 
> 
> In other words, this crap makes criminals out of anyone who wants to make a
> living as a programmer. What else are you going to do? If you fight, the
> lawyers win. 
> 
> I do hope the open source people find away around it.

I haven't read the *Fine* article but:
Slashdot: Sue me first:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/21/229219

I did read another article (can't find the link) where they spoke
with various customers (O.S. and other) and some basically said
that they what MS was doing amounted to nothing because MS has
been doing nothing. So it looks like this round of FUD isn't
going as well as MS has hoped.

But there is still something bothering me about this whole thing.
What' MS really up to? They had to know that they would get this
kind of reaction. Something else is up I just haven't figured
out what yet. I hope someone does, soon.

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