Why, because it worked so well for SCO?
October 10th, 2007 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat - vnunet.com
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property.”People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” Ballmer said last week at a company event in London discussing online services in the UK.
You’d think after the SCO disaster, this wouldn’t be a road Ballmer would want to walk too far down. It would really put Microsoft on an even keel with the likes of SCO and the RIAA.
Idiots.