Silenzio… parla Shuttleworth!

Vi rimando al blog del “mitico” Mark “uomo-dello-spazio” Shuttleworth, su cui leggo un interessante post in risposta alle provocazioni di Micro$oft:
“Microsoft non è la vera minaccia”.

Alcuni spunti interessanti:

And I’m pretty certain that, within a few years, Microsoft themselves will be strong advocates against software patents. Why? Because Microsoft is irrevocably committed to shipping new software every year, and software patents represent landmines in their roadmap which they are going to step on, like it or not, with increasing regularity. They can’t sit on the sidelines of the software game - they actually have to ship new products. And every time they do that, they risk stepping on a patent landmine.

Riassunto: Microsoft tra qualche annocombatterà essa stessa contro i brevetti software per non essere costretta a pagare per usare i brevetti altrui

In short, Microsoft will lose a patent trench war if they start one, and I’m sure that cooler heads in Redmond know that.

E il vero pericolo secondo Mark:

The real threat to Linux is the same as the real threat to Microsoft, and that is a patent suit from a person or company that is NOT actually building software, but has filed patents on ideas that the GNU project and Microsoft are equally likely to be implementing.

Il pericolo viene dalle compagnie che non producono software, ma che potrebbero brevettare idee che allo stesso modo il progetto GNU e microsoft vorrebbero implementare

Tutto l’articolo è molto interessante e vi invito a leggerlo.