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Linux consortium OIN buys Microsoft's old patents
- j_baker 17y agoThere's an inaccuracy in the article, Microsoft didn't think they were dealing with AST, they were dealing with AST. From the press release he links to: "The patents were recently purchased by Allied Security Trust (AST) from Microsoft to ensure the patents did not fall into the hands of non-practicing entities (more information on non-practicing entities is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll, among other sites) that could seek to assert the patents against Linux products."