Byte me with the heads up, sarcasm dude. I just posted what I saw and I am commenting on the threads responses.

Lets sum up shall we...

1. I posted here because it involved some MS patent infringement issues that looked to be file system-management techniques inherent to the Linux kernel itself.

2. The article stated that on the face of it, "It seems like the Linux issue is less important to Redmond than the GPS patents ", and that Microsoft's deputy general counsel said that there aren't any broader plans to go after Linux vendors.

3. I called BS on anything MS legal says or does based on past observations.

4. I also believed that TomTom was chosen not for it's GPS patent infringement rather, because of TomTom Go Linux. (There are plenty of GPS navigation systems out there that would purportedly infringe on MS patents. Some by companies with more assets than TomTom.)

5. Big things begin as small decisions. Small decisions like what OS to use for an automobile, or to manage a home theater from a cable box, or home telephony, or a freakin' refrigerator and a pantry; and what OS manages how all these systems communicate among themselves and their masters are made by their individual manufacturers. Linux often lends itself to an in-house solution. MS, not so much.

In a cyclical economy business decisions often happen within a relatively small window of time. Once enough of those small decisions are made and the answer is the same, it doesn't matter if the decision was right or wrong, a tipping point (for lack of a better term) occurs and the benefactor will prevail with any decisions that remain.


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Now you can agree or disagree with any of the above. You can ask for clarification (especially that last bit, LoL). Hell, you can even take this thread off in a whole new direction. It won't hurt my feelings. But, on a friendly board such as we have here, sarcasm always weirds me out. I don't know what point to respond to.