Lets forget the FACT that microsoft has failed to say WHAT patents have been violated even after being asked!

99% if not all of the patents M$ claims can be viewed with prior art. Grafical interface? Xerox had that before Bill opened his wallet to BUY dos. Email software? isn't hard to find prior art there either. The kernel? If this this threat wasn't from Microsoft I doubt I could stop laughing.

Now lets get back to the first paragraph. Microsofts been attemting to rid itself of opensource since it appeared. If Microsoft had any REAL patent claims they wouldn't be making vague threats, they'd be suing. And it wouldn't be customers/users they'd be after either, it'd be developers and distributors they be after.

Lets face the facts on this. I can't accuse someone of stealing from me without even bothering to say WHAT they supposedly stole! Kinda reminds me of sco/ibm who was sco again? The only diffence in the tactic is sco claimed copyright violations without laying out code. Microsoft is making patent claims without stating which patents.

Numbers aren't so impressive when there isn't really anything behind them.

So ditched MS after that trash they call XP came out. I'm now a linux user. I don't use linux because it doesn't cost anything. I use it because it's truely FREE as in free speach. I support linux because I support freedom. In that sense I support your right to choose. But I cannot support illegale claims.

I'm a linux user, and C/C++ programmer. Microsoft should feel free to either put names on the EXACT violations, so I and other linux developers can remove them or quit barking!