Is Microsoft suit against TomTom first shot in Linux war?

Courtesy Enterprise Linux Log  Fri, 02/27/2009 - 11:14

Is Microsoft’s suit filed against GPS device maker TomTom the first shot in a larger Linux war? That was the question being asked yesterday after news spread that Microsoft had filed a patent-infringement suit in US District Court for the Western District of Washington against TomTom NV and Tom Tom Inc.

The Linux community went into a tizzy in 2007 over Microsoft’s patent tirade , which indicated that open source software violated 235 of the company’s patents.

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