Updates: Herehttp://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MICROSOFT_OPEN_SOURCE?SITE=AZMES&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT's a more detailed break up of that 235, Torvald's responsehttp://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600443to the claim and finally two interesing blogs: Why Microsoft Won't ID Patent Violations…http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/microsoft-linux-patent-violations/It's Time for Microsoft to Put Up or Shut Uphttp://lmaugustin.typepad.com/lma/2007/05/its_time_for_mi.html

James

On 5/16/07, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/

Great to see CNN talking about Free Software and not Open Source.

Cheers Praveen

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2007/5/17, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com:

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Great to see CNN talking about Free Software and not Open Source.

The sentence construct appears to use it in the context of "free beer" than "libre" but then I might be nitpicking

I agree with you on this about the first sentence, but then he has gotten it in other cases like this -------"free world" - people who believe software is pure knowledge.

And it was the best article I have seen in a while though it did miss some points like (but again most of those who are new to the community misses it, I missed it when I joined)

----------Businesses loved free software. But they had no use for Stallman's noble sentiments, and neither did the many developers who began to write free software specifically for businesses. They chafed at some of the requirements in Stallman's GPL, so they devised their own licenses, called open-source licenses. Those often gave them a freedom Stallman forbade: the freedom to keep secret any improvements they made in free software, turning them back into proprietary code.

But again on a whole it was refreshing.

Cheers Praveen