Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 17:43 UTC, submitted by JK
Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK. The strategy behind that was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace, Shuttleworth said. He also took issue with the software maker for not disclosing the 235 of its patents it claims are being violated by Linux and other open-source software.
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2. If there is patent infringement, and the developers were made aware of the problems, the problems would be 'coded around'. This would eliminate the issue.
Someone obviously doesn't want that to happen.
Coding around it would only solve future liabilities.
Not current and past.
And while we're at it, why don't we bring up this old story:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5291403.html
That doesn't sound like it's even an exhaustive search for possible infringements.
Was that list ever released to the public?
If not, why hasn't there been any campaigns to get the list released so devs can code around these possible infringements?
If it has been released, have it all been coded around?