Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 12:39 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"This week, Microsoft laid out the next chapter in their plans regarding patents and open source Linux software, by going public with the claim that Linux infringes on some 235 of their software patents. The first chapter in this story began back in November of last year, when Microsoft entered into a agreement with Novell. These events, in my opinion, form the most important dynamic today as to the future success of Linux. How will all of this affect open source software and Linux? What should the open source community do? And... What will Linspire do?"
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2006-04-04
So which patented inventions did all these nasty rip-off FOSS people violate when copying the start button et al? And can those patents stand up in court as non-obvious and without prior art? Or is this just more FUD.
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A: its juts more FUD.