microsoft gets deperate

in a business week article today (found on newsvine of course), it appears that microsoft now wants to ‘kill’ open source in the software industry. microsoft believes that many of its patents are violated by open source software and are targeting compensation for such infringments from linux and companies that use linux, such as novell, fuji xerox and samsung electronics. however, microsoft has not come forward with defining which patents exactly linux is supposedly violating but is rather trying to bully such companies by making vague threats. this goes to show that any illusion of microsoft trying to build bridges with the open source community had never existed in the first place. i guess they are starting to finally feel the economic and business burdens that are bought about by more innovative and progressive companies like google. good…. now if only microsoft would go down in flames! we just need people to open their eyes and realize the imitating, subordinate crap that company is putting out nowadays which, for an intelligent and logical person, would shun them away from supporting their products at all.