Microsoft profits from Linux patent FUD

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jul 26, 2012

For the first time, Microsoft has publicly gotten a company using Linux servers to say that they’ve signed a Linux patent licensing deal, but it’s far from the first time that Microsoft has convinced Linux-using businesses into paying for Linux.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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