“Granted, a blanket moratorium that lays down patent weaponry
all around WOULD be better… but how? The Linux community doesn’t
owns a bunch of patents that might be used against Microsoft.
Rather, companies that distribute Linux own them.“How, then, to effect a trade wherein Microsoft agrees not to
sue users of Linux in return for a reciprocal agreement from
patent-owning companies that might own IP relevent to Microsoft
software…?”