It can't spread that far. [LWN.net]

It can't spread that far.

Posted Jun 8, 2007 20:09 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: It can't spread that far. by coriordan
Parent article: Another day another Microsoft patent deal

Linux is not going to be rendered illegal.

This is something you just don't have to worry about. The worst, the absolute WORST you could every expect to happen is that Linux developers would have to halt development for a period to work around some patented paticular.

Even that is very unlikely.

Linux is a multi-billion dollar industry now. We are getting close to 10 billion dollar annual server sales alone. And it's only showing signs of growing in all segments of the computer industry.

Microsoft isn't going to gain any legal clout by letting Linux grow and going "na-na-na we have all these patents". The more games it plays like this the weaker it's position is.

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