Microsoft not feeling TomTom Linux patent chill?
There has been a lot of talk in the last several weeks about Microsoft's patent lawsuit against navigation vendor TomTom, which includes Linux. Despite that talk, (at least in the press), Microsoft apparently is not seeing any direct backlash as a result of their patent case.
I asked Sam Ramji senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft about TomTom the other day and he claimed that patent issues aren't causing any chilling effect on his part of Microsoft's open source plans.
"We've made so much progress in demonstrating a consistent and rational process for open source adoption of Microsoft technologies and interoperability with non-Microsoft platforms," Ramji said. "I feel like we've gained some credit in that area and we do our best. I've been at two significant open source events in the last few weeks and none of attendees have brought up the issues of patents to me."
Also: The importance of Microsoft’s position paper on open source
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