Reports are circulating on the Web about a project called "Operation Open Gates," which is a consortium to be announced on January 25th by the Open Source Development labs (OSDL). As first reported on LinuxBusinessWeek
last Friday, OSDL, IBM and Intel are to purportedly "rewrite the
components in the Linux kernel that, it has been alleged, tread on
other people's IP - or at least the 27 Microsoft patents that Linux
supposedly infringes." There are also reports saying that the whole
thing is nonsense...