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Hypocritical Red Hat hopes to leverage patents to cement its Linux market leadership: Microsoft deal

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This commentary on the Microsoft-Red Hat partnership is a back-to-the-roots post for me. This blog started as a Free and Open Source Software Patents blog–hence the FOSS Patents name– and only because of all the (ultimately not too meritorious, let alone impactful) patent attacks on Android, it effectively became a smartphone patent wars blog (but by then it was too late to rename it without losing traffic).

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