[olug] The next OSS lawsuit...?

[Daniel Linder]

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I wrote:
> Ok, now what is Microsoft up to?...
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117793,tk,dn091604X,00.asp

<quote who="VHP3">
> So why exactly is Microsoft pissed off at OpenOffice
> and/or Sun?  Aside from the fact of course that now
> there is a half way decent competitor to M$...
> Neither article was particularly clear as to exactly
> why Microsoft had the 'right' to sue people who
> willingly choose to use other software.

Ars Technica has another blurb on this on their front page right now
(http://arstechnica.com/).  Their writers take on it is that there might
be some Intellectual Property (i.e. Patents) that they have that
OpenOffice.org ("OOo") might be infringing on since their products can
read/write MS-Office file formats (well, fairly well but not perfectly).

Dan

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