Pantent infingments?

[Jon Pruente]

On 5/15/07, Earle Beason <Earle-Beason at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Anybody else know of any possible patents that could have been violated
> by the open source project as Microsoft has claimed?

MS isn't going to tell.  Doing so will allow developers to code around
them, or will allow the Software Freedom Law Center to work to prove
the patent invalid.  They will just use this FUD to extort money from
large weenie companies who are scared of legal threats.  By revealing
exactly what patents are infringed, they open the door to people
working very quickly to remove the infringing parts, and thus making
the code base immune from further MS claims on those patents.

Jon.