Microsoft
chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of
Red Hat
Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property.
chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of
Red Hat
Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property.
"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property,
in a sense have an obligation to compensate us," Ballmer said last week at a
company event in London discussing online services in the UK.
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Short patent timeline:
16 May, 1991: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." - Bill Gates, Challenges and Strategy Memo
Aug, 2004: OSDL releases a study saying Linux may infringe 283 patents; Ballmer leaves away the word "may"
May, 2007: Brad Smith claims Linux potentially infringes 235 patents
Oct, 2007: Ballmer claims
Linux potentially infringes 153 patents
Conclusion: Number of Microsoft patents filed at USPTO grows, but number of MS patents Linux potentially infringes on is declining.
source: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93899/index.html
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