SPUG: Microsoft says Linux, open source violate patents

John Costello cos at indeterminate.net
Wed May 16 08:27:31 PDT 2007


On Tue, 15 May 2007, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> Today's "Seattle Times" carried story by Bloomberg News.  
[...]

Linus responds in Information Week.

<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600443>

One analysis I've read (sorry can't find it) suggests that Micorosoft is 
less interested in a court fight than in convincing tech vendors to enter 
licensing agreements.

P-I's article
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/315669_msftpatents15.html>

and two AP articles published through the P-I

<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_microsoft_open_source.html>
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700ap_microsoft_open_source.html>




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