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A-patent-a-day, a service to help the community identify Microsoft patents that Linux infringes and help them organize development efforts to remove their dependency.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Software Updates Infringe on Microsoft Patents.

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This is more serious than originally anticipated. In the Microsoft vs Salesforce lawsuit, Microsoft brought forward nine patents. Those ...

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Microsoft vs Salesforce vs the World

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What do you know? Microsoft seems to be scared of Salesforce and is going after them with a battery of patents Perhaps the most interesting...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sun, Oracle, Java and Microsoft patents.

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Ever since Oracle announced its intentions of getting its hands on Sun there has been various lingering questions. What happens to the Micr...

Language Envy

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Microsoft envy does not end with the Mono folks which made their C# and VB knockoffs for Linux. Language envy is alive and kicking everywh...

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Mobile Patents.

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Microsoft today got HTC to sign a patent deal over mobile patents that Android might infringe. Horacio Gutierrez from Microsoft was the spo...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

A New Hope

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Last year I shut down this blog. There was some genuine criticism at the time that having a blog dedicated to exploring which other parts o...

Monday, July 6, 2009

Change in Strategy

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Over the past couple of days I came up with a list of some 40 Microsoft patents with corresponding pieces of code in open source projects th...

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