Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

Irony, perhaps the best single word to describe the latest development with Microsoft. I find amusing that the most vocal company that is preaching about the true value of IP and patents, turns around and violates a patent of Prof. Lee Keung-hae of Hankuk Aviation University.  The following is a quote from the Korean Times.

Microsoft, the world’s top software maker, may have to stop selling its flagship ”Office” suite program in Korea temporarily due to patent infringement, according to a local technology transfer agent.

I would assume that since Microsoft is an advocate for patents and IP that they would honor those individuals or companies that possess them, wouldn’t you?

Irony as defined by wikipedia,

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood 

Quite a gap indeed.