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Microsoft sues TomTom over FAT patents
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| The underlying strategy is very obvious: Make those patent licenses high
| enough to reduce the cost advantage of a Linux based OS over Windows CE and
| thereby demotivate companies from using Linux in the embedded world.
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| This has so far happened behind closed doors, but if you google you can find
| a couple of strange press releases of Asian companies buying into those MS
| patent deals for Linux.
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| [...]
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| I myself, as well as numerous other people in the Free and Open Source world
| are asking themselves how this legal action fits into the
| Microsoft-proclaimed Free Software friendly strategy. As you can see now,
| that was nothing but vapor.
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http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/02/27/#20090227-microsoft_patent_lawsuit
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/fatgen.mspx
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