Future Implications: Why Microsoft will Fear Google and Linux

“Google and Microsoft are at it again. But this time Google is
attacking Microsoft for threatening Linux users for patent
violations.

“In an announcement made earlier this week, Google signed on
with the Open Invention Network (OIN), which is supported by Red
Hat and a few other Linux heavyweights. The Open Invention Network
is an organization designed by and for Linux developers,
distributors, sellers, resellers, and end-users to protect them
from the onslaught of costly lawsuits or other attempts made on
them by bigger and better-funded enterprises. But until Google
joined the fray on the side of the OIN, some people were skeptical
of the ability of Linux to stand up to Microsoft…”

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