[svlug] Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents??

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:49:53PM -0700, David Ljung Madison wrote:
> > > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/ 
> > > 2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm
> > 
> > It's already been discussed in many other forums (lwn.net,
> > groklaw.net, etc).
> 
> 
> I did some searching and couldn't find the answer to what
> seems to me to be a simple question.
> 
> Has Microsoft posted this list of supposed infringers
> in the Open Source world?  It would be nice to know
> if you're "stealing" from Microsoft.

No, they haven't posted the list, because if they did, the race would be
on to knock down all those patents (or observe that the USPTO granted the
same patent to multiple parties) and work around the rest.  A recent
Supreme Court decision makes it much easier to get a patent tossed out on
the grounds of obviousness.  It can still be an expensive proposition,
but now that big money is behind Linux, the money is available.  Also,
Microsoft's own software, no doubt, infringes several hundred patents
as well.