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==Infringement claims==
[[Microsoft]] has claimed that [[free software]] such as [[OpenOffice.org]] and the [[Linux kernel]] violate 235 Microsoft patents and said that it will seek licence fees,<ref>{{cite web |last=Parloff |first=Roger |date=2007-05-14 |title=Microsoft takes on the free world |url=https://fortune.com/2007/05/28/microsoft-linux-intellectual-property/ |access-date=2022-12-17 |publisher=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]}}</ref> but has so far failed to disclose which patents they may violate. However, the [[Microsoft v. TomTom|2009 lawsuit]] against TomTom involved the use of Microsoft's patents for long filenames on FAT filesystems, the code for which was in the Linux kernel, not in any TomTom-developed software.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10173126-75.html | title=Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat
| publisher=[[CNet]]
| date=2009-02-26
| last=Mills
| first=Elinor | access-date=2010-06-10
| archive-date=2011-06-17
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617024457/http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10173126-75.html
| url-status=dead
}}</ref> The Linux kernel developers subsequently worked around it.<ref>See the kernel option VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES</ref>
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|url=http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012908-barracuda.html
|title=Barracuda turns to open source users for patent research
|access-date=2008-01-30
|archive-date=2008-01-31
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131212827/http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012908-barracuda.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/legal/
|title=Legal Defense of Free and Open Source Software
|publisher=Barracuda Networks
|access-date=2008-01-30
|archive-date=2008-01-31
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131140440/http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/legal/
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>
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| url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=833&tag=nl.e622
| title=First patent suit against Linux has a Kevin Bacon-esque connection to Microsoft
| quote=''LLC is a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation... This past July Acacia hired Jonathan Taub away from his job as Director, Strategic Alliances for the Mobile and Embedded Devices (MED) division at Microsoft and then, just last week, it hired Brad Brunell away from his job at Microsoft where, among other jobs, he served as General Manager, Intellectual Property Licensing.''
| last=Berlind
| first=David | publisher=zdnet
| date=2007-10-11
| access-date=2007-10-12
| archive-date=2007-10-24
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024002116/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=833&tag=nl.e622
| url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref name="LLCsuitegroklaw">{{cite web
| url=http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
| title=Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted
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