Date: 10/09/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

FUD about patent claims means little to the mass market, because patent holders rarely go after customers, but it might mean something in the enterprise space. It might cause enough hesitation that large companies will listen to a Microsoft "blended operating systems" pitch aimed at pushing IBM aside.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/167458516/