As we said the other day with Microsoft saying that Linux is in violation of at least 235 Patents, software patents are difficult to protect, because there are at least a dozen ways to approach any one problem. That being said, the open source community has fired back at Microsoft, saying that they have violated 532 patents with their operating system, .NET, Vista, and Office.

It’s certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates [more] patents than Linux does. Basic operating system theory was pretty much done by the end of the 1960s. IBM probably owned thousands of really ‘fundamental’ patents.

That coming from Linus Torvalds.

To read more, check out zdnet.com.

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