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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 | | I
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it includes Linux VMs
Auzue offers hosting of several Linux distributions including their
own Microsoft Linux
I have different issues with Microsoft Linux, mostly that they don't
release the source
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 02/09/2017 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 ?
>
> by covering them with endemity, there is insentive to move off of Linux VMs
>
>>
>> -----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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>> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
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>> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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>> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
>> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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> --
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com
>
> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> http://www.brooklyn-living.com
>
> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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