United State : De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents.Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never received a degree. has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands. De Icaza made the statement as part of an attack on Free Software Foundation head Richard Stallman (person) Richard Stallman - Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. who, in an article about Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation, had referred to him as an apologist Apologist Any of the Christian writers, primarily in the 2nd century, who attempted to provide a defense of Christianity against Greco-Roman culture. Many of their writings were addressed to Roman emperors and were submitted to government secretaries in order to defend for the Redmond-based software giant. De Icaza later removed the portion of his post that referred to the patents. As pointed out by one commenter, Mark, it ran as follows: "Richard's post contains two bits of actual substance: the promotion of DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M by Microsoft and the recent patents that were sold. "Perhaps he put that at the end to give credibility for the rest of his message which is mostly innuendo innuendo n. from Latin innuere, "to nod toward." In law it means "an indirect hint." "Innuendo" is used in lawsuits for defamation (libel or slander), usually to show that the party suing was the person about whom the nasty statements were made or why the comments . "I dislike DRM as much as the next person, on the other hand, it has allowed me to pay 15 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. a month and get all-you-can-get Music, so I have mixed feelings about this. "As for the patent sale, they are now in good hands: the OIN, so they are not a problem." (emphasis mine) Mark pointed out that some of the comments, made in reaction to De Icaza's post, made no sense because they were referring to this deleted portion. De Icaza did not respond to this post. Even Jim Zemlin, the head of the Linux Foundation, one of those who has always argued for a softly-softly approach to Microsoft, lost his cool after the patent stunt, writing in his blog : "...by selling patents that target Linux, Microsoft could help generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux, without needing to attack the Linux community directly in their own name." Microsoft tried to sell the anti-Linux patents to Allied Security Trust, a patent-holding firm that provides its members permanent access to patents that it purchases and then sells the patents to others. The Open Invention Network The Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and licenses them royalty free to entities which, in turn, agree not to assert their own patents against Linux or Linux-related applications. , an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux, got wind of the sale and bought the patents itself. Stallman's short article about the CodePlex Foundation, an organisation that has been set up by Microsoft with the ostensible Apparent; visible; exhibited. Ostensible authority is power that a principal, either by design or through the absence of ordinary care, permits others to believe his or her agent possesses. aim of enabling "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities," questioned its motives in light of Microsoft's historical animosity towards free software. The reference to De Icaza as a Microsoft apologist appeared to get up the Novell vice-president's nose. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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