Comment 367 for bug 1

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.