[ros-kernel] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Legal...

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

I don't think they'll be too quick to do this.. it would give the
project a lot of publicity and in their eyes do more harm than good.
They'll only worry about us when their marketshare starts being
affected. Nevertheless, I have contacted the FSF asking for their
advice.

- Jason

--- Eric <em...@po...> wrote:
> Well it's a moot point.  I can see we all basically agree on what's
> RIGHT
> but it all comes down to how much $ M$ wants to spend pursuing a
> lawsuit.  I
> frankly don't see them doing this for reasons already stated.
> 
> What is ROS prepared to do in such an event?  Or is it something
> you really
> aren't concerned with right now? Just curious.
> 
> Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Jolliff [mailto:re...@lv...]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 6:46 PM
> To: ros...@re...
> Subject: [ros-kernel] Re: RE: Re: Legal...
> 
> 
> At 09:52 AM 10/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to be one but I simply fail to
> see how
> M$
> >have any legal standing.  That's like Ford suing Chrysler for
> copying the
> >automobile.  Is it not?
> >
> >After all, M$ literally copied the Window concept from Xerox and
> MS-DOS was
> >a derivative of CP/M which they purchased and copied.
> 
> I am sure that Microsoft believes they have hundreds of patents on
> technology in the
> NT operating system.  It does not matter than those patents are
> bogus, one
> would
> have to defend oneself against them all the same and expend scarce
> resources doing
> so.
> 
> 
> Rex Jolliff
> re...@lv...
> 
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