Microsoft claims 235 patent breaches by open source software
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Screenshot of an OpenOffice.org program running on the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Software giant Microsoft’s chief lawyer Brad Smith claimed in an interview published in the magazine Fortune on Monday that open-source software products violate 235 of Microsoft’s patents. The main transgressors are claimed to be Linux (107 patents) and OpenOffice.org […]