Z:gnu-www-ja-microsoft--5fb902-These obstructionist policies/en

These obstructionist policies were not new: Microsoft, and many other software companies, had been doing them for years. Secrecy and patents have obstructed us greatly, and they may be more damaging in the future. For the most part, the companies' main motivation in doing these things is to attack each other; now, it seems, we are specifically targeted. Microsoft is using its patents directly to  attack the free software community, and our community is fighting back.