FC4 or FC5

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:43 -0400, Sean wrote:
>  
> > Copyrights and patents are very different approaches.  Microsoft has
> > not chosen to enforce any patent protection against samba yet but
> > that doesn't mean they can't or won't.
> 
> Oh well.  Even in the unlikely case that Samba is found to impinge
> on a MS patent and must be withdrawn it won't be the end of the world.
> Microsoft would have to be a bit crazy to go down that road then since
> they would alienate so many customers and potential customers that it 
> would likely cost them more than it was worth.

Much, much stranger things have happened...  Back in the days when
AT&T was the world's biggest monopoly and had invented the world's
nicest OS (i.e. up through the early 90's), no one could possibly
have imagined that a company like the current version of SCO would
end up owning the rights to that code or that they'd be suing
everyone in sight over it.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com