A very interesting analysis of the Microsoft versus TomTom suit has appeared on veteran journo Glyn Moody's blog.
Having established that Microsoft's "it's not about Linux" schtick is transparently wrong - the area covered by the FAT patents is pure Linux, unchanged by TomTom, so any Linux distro with FAT compatibility would qualify - we then get a post from Jeremy Allison, who's well versed in Microsoft's approach to open source.
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