Microsoft takes on the free world

Fortune by Roger Parloff | May. 14, 2007 (News Analysis)

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Ari Hakkarainen - May 14, 2007 - 6:44 AM PDT
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 by Kaizar Campwala - May. 15, 2007

A detailed, if somewhat confusing, report on Microsoft's strategy against free software.

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 by Ari Hakkarainen - May. 14, 2007

This will be interesting... what kind of reactions from the open source community we will witness. This is a good story that lays out some of the background information on what has happened so far.

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