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Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
May 14, 2007
Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents.
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Big Blue will let open-source developers use 500 software patents without fear of infringement lawsuits.
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IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings
February 22, 2006
To build defense in long-running legal battle over Unix use, Big Blue demands details from Microsoft, HP, Sun and BayStar.
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Third draft of GPL version 3 eases some concerns, raises issues for Novell, and shows the Free Software Foundation is listening.
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