Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Microsoft 'desperate,' says patent complaint target OpenOffice.org

pilotError said:
Your witnessing the downfall of an empire...

Just one more public debacle they've gotten themselves into.
Click to expand...

Good - I hope they crash and burn!:p

But because of their dominance in the PC market, us Mac users don't have to put up with viruses etc. due to small market share, that said - the world would probably be a better place without Microsoft.
 
I personally hope they don't completely disappear; both Apple (Jobs) and Microsoft (Gates) are pieces of computing history by now! Besides, what would happen if Apple became the only major commercial OS availiable? It might be split up into a bunch of little slices :) .

But it wouldn't come down to that. At the very least, Microsoft would downsize and continue selling Office, if nothing else.
 
Muncher said:
I personally hope they don't completely disappear; both Apple (Jobs) and Microsoft (Gates) are pieces of computing history by now! Besides, what would happen if Apple became the only major commercial OS availiable? It might be split up into a bunch of little slices :) .
.
Click to expand...


Well one

1) Apple hasn't be willing to sell OS X...or any Mac OS since Jobs came back, maybe this would change is MS went away, but as MS goes away, Linux will grow. OS X will also..but Linux will over take OS X IMO, because it can run on so many for computers. Also it will be a LONG time before MS is gone all the way
 
To: Steve Ballmer
From: The Rest Of Us

Subject: Patent Claims

Steve,

Option 1. Rather than make vague threats, publish which specific patents you claim are being violated, and see how it plays out in the real world.

Option 2. You & the rest of the executive team cash in some stock, and retire to a remote island where you can all monkey dance to your heart's delight.

We're fairly well tired of Microsoft's nonsense anymore. Develop or die, please. In simpler terms, put up or shut up, you pompous blowhard.
 
I'm really happy that people aren't taking this sitting down. And not just users, but CEO. Sun, OpenOffice all are kick arse, no beating around the bush. Even Novell said they think MS is wrong.


Hopefully IBM, Dell, HP, Google(even if its just to support Linux) and even Apple will speak up.(possibly some have, and I missed it!) MS is big, but they can't overpower Google, Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, Sun and OpenOffice.


And if it even becomes a patents fight, IBM and Apple should be able to stop MS, because I'd bet each company has something that the other uses.

Hell, maybe MS will end up losing market share!
 
"The latest draft of the GPLv3 attempts to tear down the bridge between proprietary and open-source technology that Microsoft has worked to build with the industry and customers."

they worked to hard to build a software suite that is out dated and expensive? ..and for the customers, is that what all their study groups have shown, that people would rather pay for proprietary windows software that isn't even backwards compatible?
 
Companies that start bashing the patent drum, especially against other established players, can't help but make me laugh...

If patent law was applied strictly and uniformly across the entire industry (perhaps run by nuclear-fuelled, super-powered patent examiners from the planet Patentron who never overlook a detail) the whole thing would come crashing down in a tangle of lawsuits and bankruptcies.

It's the nature of the software industry, like all sciences, to develop and extend the work of others, both practical and theory. As the inscription around the edge of a £2 coin states, standing on the shoulders of giants.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back