In a new interview with the father of the Linux kernel, Microsoft does not escape a quick mention that could lead to further discussion. It has been a while since Linus last spoke about Microsoft's so-called 'intellectual property' claims. He now says that Microsoft must have made up numbers. This would not be surprising at all (if true). Here is another interesting thing he had to say:

[Linus:] I really cannot speak for Microsoft. I suspect they are noticing that they have a hard time competing on technical merit or price and are trying to muddy the waters.

Linus Torvalds has also just announced the release of the 7^th release candidate of the 2.6.22 kernel.

The patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it.