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Title: Microsoft Wants to 'Kill' Open Source - Aaron Ricadela, Business Week Post by: Mark David on May 22, 2007, 06:55:10 PM Now that the computer industry has its first accounting of how many patents Microsoft says are violated by open-source software, the question for many tech vendors is how aggressively the software giant will begin enforcement. And judging from the reaction in the blogosphere, the new disclosures inspire fear. Microsoft has already begun collecting payments and gaining access to the patent portfolios of companies that use the open-source Linux operating system in their products.
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