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by TwoSheds 5733 days ago
There were at least these cases which seem trollish:

MS vs. TomTom

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/chewing-the-fat-in-the-m...

MS vs. Salesforce

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-...

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Indeed... Believing Microsoft won't patent-troll is like believing Oracle when they say'd they're against Software Patents. It's just a matter of time when some CEO will notice a good opportunity to make money with patents.

But I digress... Currently Microsoft isn't doing anything evil. Making software patents harder to get is clearly a step in the right direction.

But it's far from Microsoft saving us all from software patents.

"Currently Microsoft isn't doing anything evil."

Heh, heh: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

No longer true.