[kwlug disc.] microsoft 235 patents

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Paul Nijjar wrote, On 5/14/2007 11:52 AM:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Chris Bruner wrote:
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>     As quoted in the article:
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> "It's a tinderbox. Patent law's
> going to be the terrain on
> which a big piece of the war's
> going to be fought. Waterloo is
> here some where." --Eben
> Moglen, Executive director,
> Software Freedom Law Center
> 
>     I'm not sure how our fair city got involved in this, but there you go.

I expect this is a reference to the Battle of Waterloo, not the City
of Waterloo.

Wherein, IIRC, Napoleon's power was broken such that he ceased to be a
factor. Here, the expectation appears to be a titanic battle is
looming, after which the landscape of all 'this stuff' will be
dramatically different.