Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

Posted Dec 9, 2003 8:58 UTC (Tue) by Zelatrix (guest, #5163)
Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

I thought that patent licensing was the responsibility of the user, not the developer (although usually developers obtain the patent licenses on the user's behalf). Wasn't that how users of Microsoft SQL Server - not Microsoft - got into difficulties when some aspect of SQL Server turned out to be in the scope of someone else's patent?

Given that anyone using the Linux FAT implementation will be doing so in order to interoperate with Windows, they already have a licence to use any patents in FAT. No?

I'm not a lawyer by the way.

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