Lawyers Weigh In on Linux Patent Threat

Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2004 3:47 AM EDT
eWEEK Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), a provider of open-source consulting and risk mitigation insurance, announced last week that it has found that there are 283 issued, but not yet court-validated, software patents that could conceivably be used in patent claims against Linux. In that same week, the German city of Munich temporarily put its planned Linux desktop migration on hold due to Linux patent concerns.

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