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| DATE | 2017-02-09 |
| FROM | From: "Mancini, Sabin (DFS)"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsoft's new strategy to beat linux | |
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On 02/09/2017 10:39 AM, Sabin wrote:
> I don't understand how this is a threat to Linux. If possible please explain in layman's terms ?
by covering them with endemity, there is insentive to move off of Linux VMs ( allow me to expand on this feedback ):
.......... indemnity ..... incentive ..... VMs = virtual machines ?
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Definition of indemnity ( excerpted from Merriam-Webster dictionary )
plural indemnities
1 a : security against hurt, loss, or damage b : exemption from incurred penalties or liabilities
2 a : indemnification 1b : something that indemnifies
3 : fee-for-service —usually used attributively
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hangout [mailto:hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com] On Behalf Of Ruben Safir
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 8:48 PM
> To: Hangout
> Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsofts new stratergy to beat linux
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> Microsoft Azure now offers patent troll IP protection
>
> Cloud
> Microsoft Azure now offers patent troll IP protection
>
> Martin Anderson Wed 8 Feb 2017 4.47pm
> gollum-troll-microsoft-azure
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> Microsoft Azure will now offer customers protection against patent
> trolling, via Redmond’s considerable collection of 10,000 legal patents.
>
> The practice of patent trolling has become an industry hazard for
> startups in the last fifteen years, with companies forming solely for
> the purpose of exploiting obscure or difficult-to-research patents which
> may overlap with the IP of startups.
>
> As of today, Azure is offering ‘uncapped indemnification coverage’,
> including coverage against open-source implementations of entities such
> as Hadoop, which forms the basis of Azure’s HD Insight product.
>
> According to the release, Microsoft will make available to Azure clients
> 10,000 patents that it owns with a view towards warding off patent
> lawsuits for software which runs on Azure. It is also promising that
> future transfer patents will never result in action against clients who
> take advantage of the scheme.
>
> Microsoft quotes a report from Boston consulting group which estimates a
> 22% rise in IP lawsuits relating to cloud products over the last five
> years in the U.S. alone. It also observes that non-practicing entities
> have increased their spending on cloud patents by 35% over the same
> period of time.
>
> The facility is intended primarily to help technology exponents who may
> have relevant patent cover in their own field of work (such as
> autonomous vehicles) but who could become vulnerable by extending their
> reach into cloud and app-based products.
>
> Microsoft corporate vice president Julia White commented in an
> interview: “They haven’t had years to build up that patent portfolio,”
> and continued, “Cloud innovation is far too important to be stifled by
> lawsuits.”
>
> Compliance website Inside Counsel suggested in 2014 that the
> labyrinthine nursery of academic and research patents which lead to
> cloud innovations has made it easier for trolling companies to pick up
> easy patent properties from cash-strapped universities with a view to
> future exploitation, and that the widespread diffusion of popular
> high-level open-source projects such as OpenStack have left enough
> potential actionable IP vulnerabilities to make speculative litigation
> worthwhile as a new industry standard.
>
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DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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