Torvalds commented on Microsoft claims
In an interview with the Information Week weekly, which the head of the Linux kernel development team gave on Tuesday, Linus Torvalds replied in absentia to a number of people from Microsoft, who had made claims with the open source community the day before allegedly violating 235 patents owned .
Torvalds went to the counter and said that Microsoft would rather violate other people's patents than the creators of Linux. If we talk about the fundamentals of the OS, which are embedded in almost any modern OSes, then most of them have been right for about 50 years with IBM. However, it does not occur to anyone that the Blue Giant will face half of the software industry.
In addition, even if patent infringements by open source writers do occur, Torvalds would be happy to see exactly where these infringements sprouted. Until then, he will consider Microsoft statements a bluff in an attempt to force opponents to make agreements that are disadvantageous to them.
Torvalds went to the counter and said that Microsoft would rather violate other people's patents than the creators of Linux. If we talk about the fundamentals of the OS, which are embedded in almost any modern OSes, then most of them have been right for about 50 years with IBM. However, it does not occur to anyone that the Blue Giant will face half of the software industry.
In addition, even if patent infringements by open source writers do occur, Torvalds would be happy to see exactly where these infringements sprouted. Until then, he will consider Microsoft statements a bluff in an attempt to force opponents to make agreements that are disadvantageous to them.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8501/
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