Microsoft won't litigate open source patents

  2007-05-19 18:00:03
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft officials are clarifying statements made regarding the number of patents supposedly violated by open source operating systems. Recently company officials have said that 235 of Microsoft's patents are being potentially breached by operating systems such as Linux. Now Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy Bill Hilf says the company doesn't have any plans on litigation. 
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