Earlier this week in an interview with Fortune magazine, Microsoft council Brad Smith mentioned a list of 235 patents that the company claims the open source is currently infringing upon. Namely 42 violations for the Linux kernel, 65 infringements by the GUI and 45 violations by Open Office programs.
Torvalds, the “father of Linux”, has come out fighting saying in no uncertain that Microsoft should either come clean about what it thinks is actually being violated or be quiet. “It’s certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does,” Torvalds told Informationweek.com, adding that if Microsoft’s Windows was put under a similar microscope it would be violating patents owned by other companies itself.
Source: IDM