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Re: [LUG] Microsoft at it again

 

Note the Linux bit! but no definition.

> Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against navigation device maker TomTom, claiming that

  its technology infringes Microsoft-owned patents. Some of the alleged 
infringement

is a result of TomTom's use of Linux technology, Microsoft said.
> 
> Microsoft has claimed in the past that technology used in the main body of the 
> Linux

  open source operating system, the 'kernel', infringes patents which it 
owns. It has

  not so far tested those claims in court.
> 
> It has now taken action against TomTom over eight patents which it owns, and a 

Microsoft lawyer said that three of those claims are related to TomTom's 
use of Linux.


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