Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong
Knut Yrvin
knuty at skolelinux.no
Mon Nov 22 07:33:04 CET 2004
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wasn't really saying that Linux
violates more than 200 software patents, Microsoft followed up by
saying Ballmer was only citing findings from a controversial study done
this summer by OSRM (Open Source Risk Management), a risk-mitigation
consultancy.
The study claimed that Linux has been found to potentially violate 283
software patents. The author of that report, however, doesn't see
things the way Ballmer does at all.
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"Microsoft is up to its usual FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," said
Dan Ravicher, author of the study Microsoft cites, who is an attorney
and executive director of PUBPAT (the Public Patent Foundation).
"Open source faces no more, if not less, legal risk than proprietary
software. The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is
citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does."
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- K
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