An accumulation of new information about Microsoft's i4i fallout and use of software patents against its most potent competition, GNU/Linux

Yesterday a very small company won a very big victory against a very large software vendor.

As Microsoft struggles to keep Office in the market, Google seizes the opportunity and poaches big customers

Microsoft knew of the patent held by i4i as early as 2001, but instead set out to make the Canadian developer's software "obsolete" by adding a feature to Word, according to court documents.

I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation during the OOXML ISO process? Didn't we need to know?

...when I see that one attorney thinks there's an "easy technical work-around" for Microsoft's patent violation in Word, my alarm bells go off. There is no easy fix here, and, short of waving the white-flag, Microsoft may very well have to stop selling Word, and thus Microsoft Office, this fall.

Contrary to abundant FUD out there, ODF is not at risk due to the i4i lawsuit