Microsoft lawyer 'won't speculate' on more Linux suits

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 26, 2009 9:22 PM EDT
Beyond Binary; By Ina Fried
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Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer said that the company's legal action against TomTom over Linux was specific to that company, but he declined to say whether other suits over the open source operating system might follow. "I wouldn't speculate at this point," Horacio Gutierrez told CNET News in an interview late Wednesday. Gutierrez did add that Microsoft's patent suit against TomTom, which includes three claims related to file management techniques used in the Linux kernel, was specific to that company.

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