Monday, August 6, 2007

Microsoft fracturing open-source

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2167193,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community</A> with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.

The strategy behind that was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace, Shuttleworth said. He also took issue with the Redmond, Wash., software maker for not disclosing the 235 of its patents it claims are being violated by Linux and other open-source software.

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