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Posted by: Toby (Thursday 18 August 2005, 2:29 PM)

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"All your patents are belong to us!!! Muhhahahahaha "chuckles microsoft.

Captain Gates to PFY, arm the litigation cannon!
If it moves they'll sue it. If it doesn't move they'll sue it in case it moves later and then claim they owned the intellectual rights to it's CEO's breakfast since last year.

Did you know you can now get insurance, that protects you against is litigation by microsoft over core linux technology patent infringement???
You get get insurance that only pays if microsoft sues you. Unfortunately in this day and age thats not wonderfully unlikely. Thank god the European Patent Directive got thrown out!

Rather scarily I've written this exact talkback on ANOTHER microsoft related story!

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