[News] Microsoft Gives Up Software Patent Fights on Web

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Microsoft Promises Not to Sue

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| Microsoft's relationship with the open-source community has been strained,
| at times. In 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously described Linux as 
| a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
| everything it touches." 
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18525&hed=Microsoft+Promises+Not+to+Sue&sector=Industries&subsector=Computing

That's another victory for Linux/OSS. With SCO and patents largely down,
there will be less reluctance in adoption.