mommedia.com: if you must translate your posts into multiple languages, please post them as a single post rather than as multiple ones. To answer your question though, its primarily FUD.
It probably doesn't affect FOSS outside of the US and in the US its a bit tenuous; this has all the hallmarks of a 'protection racket'. Note that Microsoft *refused* to publicly state which patents were involved. See a post I made about the subject on http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/microsofts-new-business-model- extortion/ for more details. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs