[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay rolyalties

[Rich]

On May 15, 2007, at 1:44 pm, Shawn LaMaster wrote:

> Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay
> royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.
Here's the answer: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39663

The author of the Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) study that  
Ballmer quoted says that it is typical for any piece of software to  
*potentially* violate around 283 patents which haven't been tested in  
court, and that the whole thing is so perfectly normal that it's  
"boring".

Just in case anyone thought it wasn't FUD...
R.