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Is Microsoft bluffing on patents?
We all know that Microsoft's patents claim against Linux is "a marketing thing," as recently stated by Linus Torvalds. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have teeth. If Microsoft can use its deep pockets to scare young technology upstarts into signing licensing agreements -- simply to avoid having their cash being sucked up in litigation (even if that litigation is a marketing ploy), then Microsoft wins. The ploy may not scare corporate users from deploying Linux. But it might add a hefty barrier to creators of Linux distros or other cool Linux-based technologies. (It can be argued that Linspire and Xandros are cases in point.)