Google, Linux, and a “Counterattack” on Microsoft’s Patent Strategy?
Reuters reports that:
Leading names of Linux, the world’s biggest grassroots software phenomenon, are spending three days to Friday [at Google’s headquarters] debating whether an increasingly commercial open source community should fight or ignore the world’s largest software maker. … “Guys: Be seekers of truth, not finders of contradiction,” Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, organizer of the event, only half-jokingly told the 150 attendees of what is billed their “Collaboration Summit.”The background is, of course, Microsoft’s promise not to sue Linux distributors and their customers for the infringement of 235 undisclosed patents, if those firms strike a licensing deal with Microsoft. By the way, does anyone have a list of attendees?
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