*Source: InformationWeek (
http://informationweek.com/news/show...ID=199501920)*
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The Linux Foundation is prepared to defend any Linux user charged with violating Microsoft's patents, but executive director Jim Zemlin said that a critical review of Windows code would show that it can be claimed to violate other vendors' patents as well.
"If you use Windows, Solaris, [IBM's] AIX or any similar operating system, you have the same patent infringement risk as using Linux. Microsoft should be careful of what it starts because it doesn't know where it will end," said Zemlin in an interview. Zemlin heads the organization that resulted when the Open Source Development Labs merged with the Free Standards Group in January. Both groups aided targets of the SCO Group, when it filed suit against Linux users AutoZone.com and DaimlerChrysler. SCO later dropped the AutoZone suit.
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