“European legislators who endorse software patents frequently
claim that those wouldn’t affect free software (or ‘open source’).
Microsoft’s lawyers are determined to prove they are mistaken.“Leaked internal documents in 1998 said that Microsoft
considered the free software GNU/Linux operating system (referred
to therein as ‘Linux’) as the principal competitor to Windows, and
spoke of using patents and secret file formats to hold us
back…”
NewsForge: Microsoft’s New Monopoly
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