[linux-audio-dev] Patents on some Linux OS code

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:28 -0600, Cornell III, Howard M wrote:
> The 11/22 issue of Computerworld has a blurb about Microsoft CEO Steve
> Ballmer warning government leaders in Singapore that switching their
> 20,000 PCs from Windows to Linux could subject them to patent lawsuits.
> I have heard some tales about commercial versions of Linux including
> indemnification of users against these suits.  What is the current
> status of the patent issues?  Will they ever be resolved, or are all
> Linux users susceptible (proportional to the depth of their pockets)?

This is what's known as "FUD".  Ignore it.

Lee