MS threatens Asian authorities with lawsuit
The operating system Linux damages reports according to Microsoft-chairman of the board Steve Ballmer 228 patents, as press desk Reuters. Details about the alleged patent violations gave not Ballmer Thursday.
The Microsoft-senior official spoke its threats from during the Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore. There spoke Ballmer also the argument of the authorities against that open-source safelyer will its then Windows.
“We are of opinion that our software much safelyer is then open-sourcesoftware because we behind our products stand. Nobody ever will know who open-sourcesoftware has built”, according to Ballmer.
In August appeared though that there 283 patents are that possible a problem form for Linux-users. 27 of these patents its in hands of Microsoft, according to the researchers of Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) at that time.
Predominance
Much Asian governments are gone about on Linux from expense savings. Last month the ministry of Defense in Singapore chose with its 20,000 pc's yet for on open-sourcesoftware. Before this year decided China, Japan and South-Korea together Linux-program' s to go write.
Especially China sees the predominance of Microsoft as a potentile threat. Wicked persons kiss maintain namely that the software maker American authorities with particular patches entry can provide till Chinese networks they so onklaar to make.