Todd Bishop: If everything is on schedule, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith should be concluding his appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco right about now -- including a full hour of questions from a panel and the audience. I'll be linking to reports from the event as they're posted. In the meantime, I spoke with Smith on the phone prior to his speech today and asked him, among other things, to address what appears to be the top Microsoft-related question on the minds of the open-source community: Why won't the company list the patents it alleges are infringed by Linux and other open-source programs?
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