We're now seeing Microsoft's true stripes. The performance of the products is a charade, an unfortunate cost of doing business in a once competitive market. The real means to profits and market share are really about legal positioning, but in essence necessitates a military posture. For what are laws and lawyers but a means to avoid violence and warfare in lieu of a day in court?
The latest moves by Microsoft, however, give them away. Stripped of their proxies, their moves are now more clearly understood to be essentially military. You are the civilians caught between Microsoft's lawyers and their quarry.
The details are now trickling out that Microsoft has real numbers -- some 235 patents across dozens of open source Open Source Hosting Solutions with 24x7x365 Support – Visit HostMySite.com Latest News about open source products -- that define the purported assault on its intellectual property. Like SCO, they can't tell you how you offend. You just need to know that you offend. You should also now know that the remedy to such transgressions shall be levied by Microsoft's legal minions, and through the laws of your great republic, when and if Microsoft feels like it.
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