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Microsoft's Marshall Phelps On Patents And Linux

Posted by timothy on from the cross-purposes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Marshall Phelps says he is running 'a licensing shop, not a litigation shop.' Bill Gates's intellectual property guru talks to Brad Stone about Redmond's new emphasis on patents, why he can't license Microsoft IP to distributors of open source software -- and why he shouldn't be feared."

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  1. Re:Seems on the level. by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Microsoft was going to pull some patent-issue on free software. . .

    it would pay SCO to do it for them.

    KFG