On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:16 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:

Ballmer is back to his talk (and no action): http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent

It's an easy game to play. "What we found was that the infringements went way beyond just IBM's involvement and that other parties had contributed things improperly... in going through the process, we counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today out of a total code base of five million," added McBride. http://www.information-age.com/article/2003/september/mcbride_blames_ibm_for... "I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism Keep in mind, there's only one verifiable number at this point; Number of patents specifically identified by Microsoft: 0 (ZERO)