By: IT News BlogThe other shoe has finally dropped for Microsoft: Mark Evans is reporting via his blog that the software giant is demanding royalties from both open source developers and users. Microsoft claims that open source products contravene over 200 Microsoft patents. This could be the epic legal battle developers have been bracing for.
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Microsoft to Linux: we want royalties!
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