Submission + - Ballmer: Linux users owes MS for infringed patents
MadJo writes: "Linux infringes patents of Microsoft, according to Steve Ballmer. And now Microsoft wants compensation for that.
From his keynote of November 16th:
"[Suse Linux has] appropriately compensated Microsoft for our intellectual property, which is important to us. In a sense you could say anybody who has got Linux in their data center today sort of has an undisclosed balance sheet liability, because it's not just Microsoft patents. Because of the way open-source works, there's nobody who's been able to do patent coverage or patent indemnification behind that.""
From his keynote of November 16th:
"[Suse Linux has] appropriately compensated Microsoft for our intellectual property, which is important to us. In a sense you could say anybody who has got Linux in their data center today sort of has an undisclosed balance sheet liability, because it's not just Microsoft patents. Because of the way open-source works, there's nobody who's been able to do patent coverage or patent indemnification behind that.""
