[luau] Microsoft's New Linux Killing Plan

[beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com]

I thought this was particularly inflaming to me.  My question is this... 
How can M$ sue for patent infringement if the interface they use is 
described in an Internet RFC?

Ben   


> >
> > ... (This following restriction is particularly nasty.)
> >
> > "A second Microsoft license on extensions used in Windows 2000 and
> > Windows XP will require royalty payments, excluding all software
> > produced by the open-source developer community. Because Microsoft has
> > patented features of the file-sharing protocol, open-source developers
> > who implement the protocol could be sued for infringement."
> > (continued in article)
> >
> > Warren Togami
> > warren at togami.com
> >
> >