Linux Foundation to Microsoft: Touch One Of Us, Fight Us All
 

*Source: InformationWeek (http://informationweek.com/news/show...ID=199702390)*
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"Touch one member of the Linux community and you will have to deal with all of us," Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin warned Microsoft in a column that appeared May 25 on the BusinessWeek "Viewpoint" slot of its Web site.

Labeled the foundation's "formal" response to Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith's statements earlier this month, the column suggested that the foundation was prepared to step in with countervailing patents if Microsoft took action against anyone. The Foundation's Board of Directors includes representatives from AMD, Bank of America, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp, Oracle, and Microsoft's newfound Linux partner, Novell.

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