Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jun 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by WillM
The Linux community is splitting - right down the middle, at this point - over Microsoft's controversial claims that the open-source operating system infringes on patents it holds. Last Tuesday, Mandriva became the third Linux vendor within five days to say it isn't interested in signing a licensing deal with Microsoft to avoid possible infringement claims. A blog posting to that effect by Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon followed similar declarations by officials at Red Hat and Canonical.
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2007-02-17
OK, fair enough ... Microsoft don't have to write software for Linux if they don't want to.
However, for as long as they have no product to offer for Linux, they cannot charge people using Linux any money.
If Microsoft want to charge Linux users some money, then Microsoft need to make it so that those Linux users are using some Microsoft code. Microsoft won't ever get any money whatsoever from users who are not running any Microsoft code.