M$ Litigation against Linux

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 12 October 2007, you wrote:
> On 10/12/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 12 October 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > On 10/12/07, Jestin Stoffel <jestin.stoffel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:25 -0700, Julie wrote:
> > > > > Some of you may find the msg threads to this article a bit
> > > > > "interesting". ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=833&tag=nl.e589
> > > >
> > > > The conspiracy theory that Microsoft is behind this suit falls
> > > > somewhere between alarmist nonsense and obviousness.
> > >
> > > It could just be a coincidence that this happened right on the heals
> > > of Balmer's latest threats. And it could just be a coincidence that
> > > the patent holder if isn't also suing Microsoft.
> >
> > Microsoft doesn't violate it, unless that's something new in Vista.
>
> Aren't we talking about virtual desktops? Or did I misunderstand the
> scope of the patent?

Indeed, a concept foreign to Windows.