When Microsoft sued TomTom for patent violations in its Linux-based navigators, it probably didn't figure what would happen next.
Microsoft sued TomTom earlier this month for patent violations around TomTom's use of the FAT32 file system in its Linux-based navigators. Although TomTom is one of the world's leading brands of navigator, it's still a minnow-sized company compared to Microsoft, and the tech community speculated that it probably lacked the resources to fight.
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