If MS sues over these 235 alleged paten violations, they have to sue a company. The article gives the example of Red Hat. Suppose that MS took down all Linux related corporations with the paten infringement cases. Those companies would be gone but another company(s) would pick up the code, remove the bad code and continue using Linux.

Also, MS has been throwing these paten infringement claims around for years and has done absolutely nothing. I think the Andrew Morton video I posed earlier said that something like 2/3 of the Linux code has been rewritten just between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel. That’s like a two year time span. A moving target like that is quite hard to hit with paten infringement.

If MS sues over these 235 alleged paten violations, they have to sue a company. The article gives the example of Red Hat. Suppose that MS took down all Linux related corporations with the paten infringement cases. Those companies would be gone but another company(s) would pick up the code, remove the bad code and continue using Linux.

Also, MS has been throwing these paten infringement claims around for years and has done absolutely nothing. I think the Andrew Morton video I posed earlier said that something like 2/3 of the Linux code has been rewritten just between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel. That’s like a two year time span. A moving target like that is quite hard to hit with paten infringement.

Is a good article on the subject between Microsoft, Novell and the whole deal, GPL v3 and so on.

Is a good article on the subject between Microsoft, Novell and the whole deal, GPL v3 and so on.