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Microsoft’s Peace Treaty With the ‘Linux System’

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Christine Hall
Oct 17, 2018

The company has joined OIN, giving up its ability to sue users of Linux for infringing any of 90,000 or so patents it holds. Not everyone in the open source community believes in its good intentions.
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