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First Steps in the Patent Protection Racket

“Vista isn’t selling as well as expected. Hints that Linux
infringes Microsoft’s patents aren’t working well as a protection
racket. And the third revision of the General Public Licence is due
to come into force soon.

“Hence Microsoft has decided to move a little further into the
ring and be a little more precise as to the number of patent
infringements it sees in free and open source software. The number
is 235, according to an interview given to Fortune magazine over
the weekend in America…”

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