<i>Google petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case, joined by allies including Yahoo, HP, Red Hat, and open source advocates, but was rebuffed. Microsoft, EMC, and NetApp urged the high court to let the Federal Circuit ruling stand, and that&#x27;s what happened.</i><p>WHY?? And here I thought Microsoft was coming around. Fuck these assholes (and EMC and NetApp too). What do these people have to gain by letting the ruling stand? It just makes interop harder. And here they are tapping into the Linux API shamelessly[1]. Shame on you fuckers.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;why-microsoft-needed-to-make-windows-run-linux-software&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;why-mi...</a>