Linus Torvalds to Microsoft: put or shut up
Aw management unit. But when you think Microsoft / open-source relationship is worse, it's now more and more worse, and again to have been taken in again, off-again love affair between the two countries. Soon after, Microsoft general counsel claimed that free and open source software (FOSS) - tied up, which of the Linux - is 23 5 violation of its patents, Linus Torvalds decided to fire back in the name of Little People.
In an interview with the information Mr. Zhou Kan, Torvalds refuted that it is actually "a lot more likely that Microsoft violated patents than Linux does not," and even pointed out that if the "source code of Windows may be subject to the same critical review of Linux Already, Microsoft may find itself in violation of the patents held by other companies. " Of course, he supported his statement that "the fundamental things are done a half century ago, and has long, long time, lost any patent protection," and closed things, hinted that Microsoft should be its cards on the table , So that Linux users has proved that 'in the wrong, or better, but "code around, regardless of silly things, they claim." As if you can not tell, they fightin ', in other words, folks.
