“Sue me first, Microsoft”

In a brazen attempt to undermine Microsoft’s recent patent infringement sabre-rattling (and perhaps to call attention to an ambitious open source documentary project) a shadowy (compliment) outfit called Digital Tipping Point has started a Sue Me First, Microsoft wiki for open source users to line up for a chorus of bluff-calling.

As of today at 9:45 AM, EDT, the Sue Me First, Microsoft wiki had 906 signatories supposedly just itching for some hot patent litigation

DTP’s Christian Einfeldt says on the wiki “We are asking that people include their name, email address, version of GNU Linux disto(s) being used, and a short statement explaining why you are using that distro.” and adds that although he is a lawyer, he is no way offering legal advice and does not practice patent law.

Some of the comments people are leaving attached to their names are pretty funny.

Digital Tipping Point also has a nice collection of over 400 short films and videos about the free and open source software movement available at the Internet Archive.

This entry was posted by T. Colin Dodd on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 9:00 am and is filed under Truth, People who get it, FUD chronicles, Thrown Gauntlets, Shadowy do-gooders, Summer of Fear. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.