[cc-community] Help w/ Defensive Patents Agreement

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Wed Feb 6 13:43:29 EST 2008


> The Microsoft agreement is complicated and has some clear ambiguity.

That is entirely deliberate on Microsoft's part. It was designed to 
muddy the waters and fool the credulous. It is not the product of a 
serious intent to remove the danger of software patents. Quite the opposite.

See Groklaw:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061103073628401

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061109111321376

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061203100147722

- Rob.


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