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 Linux Vendor Settles With Microsoft, Jul 16, 2009

Maker of Buffalo networking gear pays up in exchange for patent indemnification.

A Linux patch has been released to circumvent a Microsoft patent that landed Linux user TomTom in hot water.

In 2007, Microsoft shook up the Linux community with claims that open source allegedly infringes on as many as 235 of Microsoft's patents. Until this year, Microsoft had not actually filed any kind of legal suits on those patents - which changed with the TomTom case.

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