The American news service CNN reported that Microsoft source world gets open and right at the beginning with the argument in the financial community feared “Patent infringement” in the battle draws to the frontal attack on the. In fact it was according to Microsoft even 235 injured patents.

This patent infringement breaks up the company from Redmond in different categories and would like to show that not only the Linux world of which is affected. In fact infringes the Linux kernel, whose Hauptaufgabe is only 42 patents in communication with the hardware. 65 more patent infringement would have discovered the Microsoft representatives in the Linux graphical user interface, which is here but not further specified. Other software from the open source world that infringes patents of Microsoft, if it were OpenOffice.org (45 patent infringement), as well as no further named email programs (15 patent infringement). The remaining 68 of injured for the time being 235 patents is thus spread over a wide part of other open source programs.

Microsoft itself now it wants to capitalize and thought to collect royalties (royalties) for this infringement. This wave may beat up to the Linux end users. Only Novell seems excluded, whose Deal exclude such action waves against the own user with Microsoft.

To the real horror for Microsoft refer as providing, for example, Google for free but in online applications. Sooner or later, it could paralyse the whole office division of Microsoft. Even if it currently still stands not afterwards, that larger companies in this way of the Office software would switch, the pure testimony brings the feasibility of such Office applications together with the existence of open Office Microsoft to sleep.

On the question of whether Microsoft would sue end users on royalties and for now as it regards the record industry for some time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer replied evasive and thus not a clear no.

, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO “that’s not a bridge we’ve crossed, and not a bridge I want to cross today on the phone with you.”