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Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun?

Posted by timothy on from the begun-this-clone-war-has dept.

Glyn Moody writes "Microsoft has filed a suit against TomTom, 'alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents — including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel.' What's interesting is that the intellectual property lawyer behind the move, Horacio Gutierrez, has just been promoted to the rank of corporate vice president at Microsoft. Is this his way of announcing that he intends going on the attack against Linux?"

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  1. Re:Patenting mistakes by Pseudonym · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And anything you use to backup the GPS unit. Or update it.

    Or develop it.

    More to the point, standards (even if only de facto standards) are good. FAT is a wheel that you don't have to invent here.

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