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| DATE | 2017-02-10 |
| FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsofts new stratergy to beat linux | | ...
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well in short never trust Microsoft. Microsoft will do whatever they
feel is in their own best interest at the moment in regards to free
speach and open source software. right now they are playing nice and
even participating in opensource software development but that can
change at any time and has in the past. in the 80's- early 90's they
were friendly, mid 90's through 2010 they were not, and 2012 forward
they have been friendly again, but don't expect it to stay that way.
As far as this goes it is not a threat because it applies equally to
software they have developed and FS and OS software they offer support
for. Its just Microsoft way of offering the same protections Red Hat
and SuSE have offered their support customers for over a decade now.
that said are their threats? YES Plenty of them! as to if they will
succeed not likely as long as people, buisnesses and governments stay
vigilant.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Mancini, Sabin (DFS)
wrote:
> PRM, thank you for the obvious effort you put into this. So, I come back to:
>
> 1. Is this an intentional sly scheme by MS / others to "kneecap" Linux / open source ?
>
> 2. If it is, is it likely to be successful ?
>
> ( I am not a lawyer, but I cannot see how some entity could lay a minefield of hundreds of patents to stifle innovation, competition and constructive development in this manner, and have it stand up to legal scrutiny ).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hangout [mailto:hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com] On Behalf Of Paul Robert Marino
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 12:01 PM
> To: NYLXS Discussions List
> Subject: Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsofts new stratergy to beat linux | | I don't understand how this is a threat to Linux. If possible please explain in layman's terms ?
>
> Well on the surface it doesn't sound like a threat. it initially
> sounds like they are just offering the same kind of indemnification as
> Red Hat and SuSE on their Enterprise editions. the problem is this
> "Microsoft will make available to Azure clients10,000 patents that it
> owns with a view towards warding off patent lawsuits for software
> which runs on Azure" I would need to look at the original terms to be
> about this but it it was written in legal terms like that it means
> that their is a potential for open source software to develop things
> against these patents and any one not running the software in Azure
> may be subject to lawsuits from Microsoft, with out the developer
> realizing it.
>
> That said I did read the original press release and what I could off
> the site about it. The reports have it way wrong
> here is the original press release
> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/02/08/protecting-innovation-cloud/#sm.001yvvhrg705epi11112m02z3v3jt
>
> It turns out what they are actually doing is
> 1) their layers will handle any law suite pertaining to any SAS, PAS,
> etc services they offer
> 2) make it so that your lawyers can see and search their patents in
> case you are sued for patent violations involving anything you running
> in Azure to defend your self against frivolous patent claims.
>
> You might be asking why the ability to see and searching the patents
> is important, well its because it surprisingly very hard to do unless
> the company who owns the patent tells you what to look for. You can
> not get a copy of a patent from the government without knowing the
> exact number of the patent first, you can not request a list of patent
> numbers owned by a company from the federal government, and you can
> not ask the government for copies of all patents owned by a company
> either. The reason why its so hard to see patents is simple but not
> necessarily obvious to every one. If someone could easily request all
> of the patents owned by General Electric and sell them all in bulk to
> a company in China or the North Korean government there by allowing
> them to copy all of technology GE has developed or acquired over the
> history of the company, it would be a very very very bad thing!!! So
> the laws around requesting copies of patents make it purposely
> difficult to look them up even though they are public records which
> every US citizen technically has the right to see..
>
> By the way this isn't as big a threat as anyone might think the last
> big indecent of this kind of thing involved SCO, this is more of a
> marketing thing against AWS than any thing else.
>
> Also there is mention of Openstack in this article as a potential
> risk. That is also bad reporting Microsoft uses components of
> Openstack in Azure and has contributed code to it specifically in
> relation to supporting windows Hypervisor hosts. also NASA is pretty
> good (and paranoid) about patent coverage essentially you would have a
> very hard time suing any one for running Openstack unless you want the
> federal government to be a co-defendant. Most people forget that NASA
> was the original writer of Openstack and Obama forced them to
> opensource it along with all other software developed by the US
> government (unless the release of the code had national security
> implications so the CIA was mostly excluded as well as things like
> targeting software developed by the military) because they were
> "developed using taxes and should there for be made available to the
> tax payers".
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Mancini, Sabin (DFS)
> wrote:
>> I don't understand how this is a threat to Linux. If possible please explain in layman's terms ?
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> 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
>> +11
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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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