You Don't Know Schestowitz!

We can probably bottle the Royster once and for all with this one: it’s the original, as far as I can tell.

And so it begins, the gauntlet is down – who draws the first MS lawsuit?

What? Is this Lord of the Rings, Book 4? Four years on, the answer is not

• RedHat (Roy is insane)
• Oracle (Roy is insane)
• EDU-Nix (Who the hell?)

Interesting that FSF have sued several companies for patent infringement in the mean time, and the Redmond Naughties have not.

I’ll leave you with Roy’s coda:

So, its an IP Bridge, not a patent cross license agreement, nothing to do with patents all you GPLers, really. Novell paid MS to be able to say that SuSE is not infringing, and MS paid Novell to say that Linux is. The relative sizes of the payments should tell you who had to be convinced.

I’m not convinced.