[ossig] Microsoft takes on the free world

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

>From CNN Money:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm

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Microsoft takes on the free world
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.

(Fortune Magazine) -- 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. 

A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies
like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new
features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so
enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are
thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data
centers. 

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