I don’t know, I kind of believe it’s true. Because how else could linux suck so bad if it weren’t a stripped down clone of Windows?
Just take everything that sucks about Windows and magnify it 20 to 30 times and you have linux!
Then you probably don't know how easy it has been to get patents for clearly non-patentable, "obvious to one skilled in the art", generic software features that are used in virtually every big piece of software.
For example, I know first hand that a VP for a chip company started the patent process for a binary search routine he "figured out" over a couple of months.
Yeah--There is only one reason left why Windows still exists.