Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 21:54 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Jerry Rosenthal, chief executive officer of Open Invention Network, has just issued a statement about the Fortune article, which I take as a warning to any litigious folks out there who might be thinking about litigation against Linux that any such action will have consequences. 'We stand ready to leverage our IP portfolio to maintain the open patent environment OIN has helped create,' the statement concludes." Sun's Schwartz chimes in too.
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{If OIN's portfolio is so great as they claim, they could easily do a crosslicense agreement with MS that would fix the issues at hand, so why don't they?}
Everyone on the planet already has a license to use Linux. It is called the GPL. Why would anyone need another license? That is the question, especially in the face of no proof whatsoever that Microsoft has any valid applicable patents, and no proof whatsoever that people's existing license to run Linux, namely the GPL, is in any way deficient to cover them.