Protecting Linux from Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft Got Caught)

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 9, 2009 6:53 PM EDT
Linux Foundation; By Jim Zemlin
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Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield broke a story on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result of this story is good for Linux, even though it doesn’t placate fears of ongoing attacks by Microsoft. Open Invention Network, working with its members and the Linux Foundation, pulled off a coup, managing to acquire some of the very patents that seem to have been at the heart of recent Microsoft FUD campaigns against Linux. Break out your white hats: the good guys won.

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