Microsoft takes on the free world
 

*Source: CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...3867/index.htm)
Thanks to Gabriel_Etranil for the submission.*
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Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.

Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant.

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