Linux activists take on Microsoft with TomTom patent prior art hunt

The Linux-protecting intellectual property activist group Open Invention Network (OIN) has asked its members to help invalidate Microsoft-owned patents at the heart of a recently settled dispute.OIN has asked the public to find and submit material that might indicate that technology covered by the patent had been invented before by other people, thus rendering Microsoft's patents invalid.Microsoft has long claimed that the open source operating system Linux infringes...