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| | Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007 |
 | | (By comparison, for instance, Verizon's (Charts, Fortune 500) patent suit against Vonage (Charts), which now threatens to bankrupt the latter, was based on just seven patents, of which only three were found to be infringing.) "This is not a case of some accidental, unknowing infringement," Gutierrez asserts. |
 | | In 2005, six of them - IBM (Charts, Fortune 500), Sony, Philips, Novell, Red Hat (Charts) and NEC - set up the Open Invention Network to acquire a portfolio of patents that might pose problems for companies like Microsoft, which are known to pose a patent threat to Linux. |
 | | E-mail programs infringe 15, while other assorted FOSS programs allegedly transgress 68. |
| money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867 (1770 words) |
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