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Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
November 19, 2004

"Microsoft is up to its usual FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," said
Dan Ravicher, author of the study Microsoft cites, who is an attorney
and executive director of PUBPAT (the Public Patent Foundation). 

"Open source faces no more, if not less, legal risk than proprietary
software. The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is
citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does." 

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1729908,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594