Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 29th Apr 2009 04:08 UTC
The Open Innovation Network has found a few of Microsoft's patents in dealing with the past TomTom/FAT case a bit fishy and have therefore submitted them for review of prior-art to the Linux community at large.
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I'm very much in agreement with your sentiments there, Thom, and will be keeping close watch on what the OIN does in the future. For me, actions like this embody the spirit of the FLOSS community.
US software patents are slowing down innovation and there is more than ample evidence for that statement on this site alone. Anything at all that can be done to stop companies from using them to sue and/or muscle out competitors is in my eyes very positive.
The thing is, Microsoft is far from the only culprit. I know that IBM are signing over patents to the OIN, but to me they are still the US's largest software patent troll. The day IBM kicks it's patent based racketeering is the day I will consider the OIN to have done it's job.