{"id":223,"date":"2007-05-17T23:08:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-05-17T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:08:01","slug":"microsoft-has-no-plans-to-litigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/223-microsoft-has-no-plans-to-litigate.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has &#8220;no plans to litigate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy, Microsoft is not planning to litigate against open source after all. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/07\/05\/17\/microsoft-wont-sue-over-Linux_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview for Infoworld<\/a> he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our strategy from everyone in the company &#8212; from [Steve] Ballmer to Brad Smith to me and everyone in between &#8212; has always been to license and not litigate as it relates to our intellectual property. So we have no plans to litigate. You can never say we&#8217;ll never do anything in the future, but that&#8217;s not our strategy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not surprised &#8211; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=218\" target=\"_blank\">reasons I stated earlier<\/a>. Of course, the other side of the coin is that if Microsoft doesn&#8217;t intend to enforce its patents, then all this patent waving is little more than bluster. It is shadow-boxing. We will see plenty more of it on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7b307683-c80c-4af6-95ad-a21373a3ea5c\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/patents\" rel=\"tag\">patents<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/open%20source\" rel=\"tag\">open source<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy, Microsoft is not planning to litigate against open source after all. In an interview for Infoworld he says: Our strategy from everyone in the company &#8212; from [Steve] Ballmer to Brad Smith to me and everyone in between &#8212; has always been to license and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/223-microsoft-has-no-plans-to-litigate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft has &#8220;no plans to litigate&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}