TomTom finds the "Linux defender" to fight against Microsoft

Article title: TomTom finds the "Linux defender" to fight against Microsoft. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

The intellectual property rights struggle between Microsoft and TomTom, a private navigation device vendor in the Netherlands, has brought a major impact to Linux for the first time today: the core of TomTom's current use is the protection scope of the Linux Open Protection Network.. This morning, Open exception Network announced that it had signed a license agreement with TomTom.

The organization is tough on protecting Linux. They say this is an active solution to problems that arise from patent hooligans and industrial companies. their operating models and manners have hurt Linux and true innovation.

In addition, the organization's "Linux Defenders" mission statement said they are attempting to abolish low-quality patents and patent applications and use IP rights management tools such as Defensive Publications, peer-to-Patent and Peer-to-Issue eliminate problems in future patents. The goal is to regulate Linux and open-source communities by limiting the resources that these organizations use to combat Linux in advance.

Microsoft and the International Trade Commission sued TomTom at the end of February because they believed the latter had violated eight patents, three of them belong to the file and memory management methods of the Linux operating system.