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Microsoft accused of 'ulterior motive' in Linux patent sale
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| Does the troll-blocking organization that recently
| secured a set of supposedly Linux-related patents from
| Microsoft need sizing for a penguin-shaped tinfoil hat?
| Or was the IP sale really Redmond's secret scheme to
| "create fear, uncertainty, and doubt" in the open-
| source community?
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| On Monday, at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, Open
| Invention Network chief executive Keith Bergelt had
| more harsh words for Microsoft over Redmond's allegedly
| sinister sale. Apparently, Microsoft shopped its
| patents to several firms, including some notorious
| patent trolls, and it didn't offer them to OIN.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/linuxcon_2009_oin/
Microsoft/Linux: Donât Cross License with Us?
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| Second, what is the impact of this sale on
| manufacturers of Linux based devices who are entering
| cross-licensing arrangements with Microsoft? What is
| the value of a cross licensing deal intended to protect
| against Linux related patents if the very patents you
| want to license are, will be, or have been, sold off to
| third parties?
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| Is Microsoft undermining its patent cross licensing
| push?
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/microsoftlinux-dont-cross-license-with-us/
Recent:
Red Hat accuses Microsoft of patent FUD
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| Red Hat blogged that the patents acquired by OIN were being marketed by
| Microsoft to
| patent trolls.
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| "It also used marketing materials that highlighted offensive uses
| of the patents against open source software, including a number of
| the most popular open source packages," Red Hat blogged. "This
| looked to us like a classic FUD effort. To unleash FUD, you
| assemble a lot of patents of uncertain value, annotate them with a
| roadmap for the companies and products to be targeted with the
| patents, put the lot in the hands of trolls schooled in patent
| aggression, and then stand back and wait for the FUD to spread with
| its chilling effect."
|
| The only problem with Red Hat's assertion though, is that according to
| a comment I got late yesterday from the OIN, they didn't think the
| actual patents were all that strong or that open source software
| actually infringed on the patents.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/red-hat-accuses-microsoft-of-p.html
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