How do you justify the quantity of patents,frivolous to ALL observers except to MS employees and groupies, that may affect Linux directly if MS ever decides to use litigation and it army of lawyers to "shut down" all free (as in freedom free software) competition? Simply judging from Microsoft's actions in the past, its propensity towards litigating financially weaker companies out of existence, and its monopolistic practices, do you seriously believe that the Linux community will believe anything you say, especially that chestnut about Microsoft patenting everything under the sun simply to protect itself?