Yeah, Steve, sure…But I’ll keep my eye on the ball anyway…(updated)

October 13, 2007 in Intellectual Property, Linux, Microsoft is so stupid

Over at Information Week, Paul McDougall has a piece that lays out some (but curiously not all) of the facts concerning the close ties between Acacia Research, who is now suing Red Hat and Novell, and Microsoft. He starts quite directly:
Less than two weeks after it hired a senior intellectual-property executive from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), [...]