In an unconventional postulation , some user of Linux and other assailable - author software are inviting Microsoft to sue them .
“ If you would like to invite a visit by Brad Smith , Microsoft ’s head litigator , please experience spare to add your name here , ” according to the wiki , part of a blog byDigital Tipping Point , a television project centre around unfastened - source software .
Microsoft maintains it has no contiguous plans to action , although it is encouraging companies to certify its rational property . Open - generator proponent on the list want Microsoft to prove that it has valid letters patent claims against Linux .
Microsoft has been evasive about details , pronounce broadly that the patent of invention postulate the Linux meat and substance abuser interface ; the OpenOffice productiveness rooms and other open - source applications , let in e - chain armour programs .
The list had more than 250 people on it as of Tuesday forenoon .
“ I apply Gentoo Linux and exclusively FOSS ( free and open - reference software system ) tool to write experimental speech and rude language processing image , ” save Sean Jensen , of London . “ And for music . And other playfulness stuff . No , Microsoft , you did not invent any of this . It ai n’t yours , it ai n’t mine , it ai n’t theirs . It ’s ours . All of ours . ”
Joe Grigg of Kalamazoo , Michigan , save that he has used the Ubuntu and Vector Linux distributions since Windows XP ’s security provide him “ sickened . ”
“ Microsoft ’s business drill made me ashamed to own a computer , ” Grigg wrote . “ I now go a LAMP ( Linux , Apache MySQL , Perl ) server and acquire professional websites on LAMP servers and am 100 percent Microsoft devoid . ”
Emrah Ünal , who listed his locale as Turkey and Finland , wrote : “ As a Linux drug user for nine year , I think I deserve to be action . There ’s no escape from judge . ”
Microsoft did not have an immediate gossip on Tuesday morning .
