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Microsoft takes on the free world

by levmyshkin | May 14, 2007 at 09:53 am

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Microsoft has long been feeling the pinch from web hippies designing software under GNU licenses and making it available free to all, no strings attached, but donations welcome.

In its latest move, Microsoft is claiming Linux violates more than 200 of its patents, and is trying to extort royalties from freeware designers.

Good luck. Long live freeware.

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.

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levmyshkin

at 11:41 on May 14th, 2007

Thanks, Moon.

Yup it's barking all over the place, urinating on cyber-fire hydrants trying to mark out territory. Maybe ten years ago, this would have been the roar of a giant. Now? It's a death rattle.