Microsoft and patent claims: ‘Business as usual’?
Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s General Manager of Platform Strategy, has finally blogged about Microsoft’s decision to go public with its claims that it has found 235 patent violations by open source software on various Microsoft products.
So why go public with an alleged number of violations? Interestingly, Hilf and Ramji don’t mention the looming GPL v3 as the impetus for Microsoft’s latest saber-rattling — even though Microsoft’s own public-relations team did. Instead, Hilf told IDG News Service (IDGNS) in an interview late last week that the decision to share the numbers was motivated by a call for “more transparency.”
Microsoft is holding an Open Source ISV (Independent Software Vendor) forum on May 21, just before the Open Source Business Conference kicks off this week. Let’s see this week if Microsoft’s open-source partners back Hilf’s claim that it’s all business as usual ….
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