Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune’s Roger Parloff reports.

Finally a number. Looks like this will get very messy very quickly if this does kick off. Still I’d rather a cold war of software than the old sort with nukes.