Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan

MonkeyDev writes "Yahoo is reporting that Munich is ready to move forward with plans to 'abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux. The council is expected to take a calculated risk and vote through the move, despite concerns about possible software patent infringements in the face of coming European Union legislation that caused months of delay.' Not everyone is excited about it. A software developer at MySQL claims 'Linux violates 283 U.S. software patents.' How does the Linux community respond to these claims?" (Florian Mueller, the MySQL developer mentioned, isn't opposed to Munich using Linux, though -- just the opposite.) Update: 09/29 02:22 GMT by T : Marten Mickos of MySQL AB writes with a correction: "Florian Müller is an independent software developer and entrepreneur. He is ALSO an advisor to MySQL AB but he does not work for the company. He is presently engaged in coordinating opposition against software patents in EU, and thereby doing all of us within free software and open source a great favour."

Comments

So what?

[Threni]

> Linux violates 283 U.S. software patents.' How does the Linux community respond
> to these claims?

I just don't care.

Talk about posting too quickly

[Infonaut]

I'm thinking now I should just hit refresh for three minutes before posting, just to be on the safe side. ;-)

Re:claims ?

[TedCheshireAcad]

A software developer at MySQL claims 'Linux violates 283 U.S. software patents.' How does the Linux community respond to these claims?"

The same way we respond to any other question about our beloved operating system: RTFM noob.

Re:claims ?

[flacco]

you don't want to see a computer/technology patent war. everyone would be guilty of something. Heck, IBM would have almost everyone by the balls if they chose.

luckily for open source / free software advocates, ibm is currently fondling, not squeezing. :-)