I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved.

I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved,

We feel strongly that copyright holders should get to make these decisions.

Given the size of the Linux code, it?s almost certain that it will violate a number of patents, and some of them, such as the ones on the FAT file system, may indeed be held by Microsoft.

In open-source software (OSS), Europe is at the forefront,

Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.