Microsoft Won't Sue Linux Users, Company Exec Says

Posted by SamShazaam on May 15, 2007 5:24 PM EDT
Information Week; By Paul McDougall 		Mail this story
Print this story

Despite its claim to own 42 patents used in the creation of the Linux kernel and hundreds more embedded in other free software programs, Microsoft does not plan to take a page from The SCO Group and sue users of the open source operating system, a senior company official said Monday. "We're not litigating. If we wanted to we would have done so years ago," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP for intellectual property and licensing, in an interview.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux, Microsoft

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
We could be sure of that already tracyanne 9 1,444 May 16, 2007 2:55 PM

You cannot post until you login.