Microsoft to Linux users: Stick ‘em up
I’ve mentioned before that corporations oppose government invervention in the so-called free market, except when the free market doesn’t give them what they want. Here is yet another example, from corporate bad citizen Microsoft: the company claims that Linux and other free software products violate Microsoft patents and they expect that people will pay Microsoft for the privilege of using free software. The same company that flouts anti-trust law and bribes politicians would like everyone else to be more reverent about the law, which upholds idiotic patents along with reasonable ones.