It seems that Microsoft has realized the foolishness of last year’s unsubstantiated assertion that Linux “violates 235 of [MS’s] patents.” Failing to scare corporations away from Linux, and failing to scare Linux distributors like Red Hat into paying them extortion money, they’ve backed away from that claim and are making friendly overtures to the open-source community (though I suspect, with a dagger hidden behind their collective back). We’ll see how it goes, though I’m happy to see that people have gotten wise to MS’s time-worn tactic of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.