Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

  2007-05-14 07:00:02
Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges in a magazine report that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents.
[Notice that Ballmer doesn't claim that Microsoft actually honors"intellectual property". No, the company that likely violates more copyrights and patents than many companies put together simply lives in a world where people honor copyrights and patents. - dcparris] 
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