Microsoft Maps Strategy to get FOSS Users to Pay Royalities
Slashdot is running with the Microsoft patent infringement story again…
The key story from CNN states: “Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents…”
It makes you wonder why the OSS community doesn’t just issue a cease and desist order to get these allegations out in the open. If there are infringing patents in FOSS (and it’s somewhat dubious), the sooner MS points them out, the sooner they can be worked around.
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