"Microsoft has brought a lawsuit against car navigation system
manufacturer TomTom. The products in question incorporate Linux, and at
least one of the seven patents involved concerns a Linux kernel
implementation rather than TomTom's own software. Is this Microsoft's
first direct salvo against Linux? ..."
http://tinyurl.com/b3t5tl
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3807801/Bruce-Perens-Analyzing-Microsofts-Linux-Lawsuit.htm
"TomTom Patent Debate is about the Mobile Internet not Linux .."
(All about open source, standards, and the business of software)
"In a Christensen economic world of a network of complements, Microsoft
captured the innovation premium in the OS on commodity hardware"
http://snipurl.com/cvr0w
http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2009/02/the-microsoft-versus-tomtom-patent-debate-is-about-the-mobile-internet-not-linux.html
"all those who insist that Microsoft has improved .. would you please ..
ask yourself: Have I lost my cotton-pickin' mind?"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090226070041454
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