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Anderer's 'Old Think' Tries to Justify A Dying Business Model
by bucy at 12:52 pm EST, Mar 15, 2004

] His argument, boiled down to its essence is: Microsoft
] and/or its proxies will sue over and over and over until
] FOSS cries uncle, and all the largest open source
] software companies go out of business or are forced to
] cross license with Microsoft and their gang. That is what
] they want. The weapon of choice will be patents. Grab as
] close as possible to standards, patent, and then crush
] the opposition by licensing until the other side runs out
] of patents, leaving them vulnerable, at which point
] businesses, they hope, will say, I don't like being
] vulnerable. I'll use Windows instead.

This is an especially good piece despite perhaps excessive optimism.


 
 
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