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The limits of a patent pool

The limits of a patent pool

Posted Dec 8, 2005 16:32 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: The limits of a patent pool by JoeBuck
Parent article: A look at the Patent Commons Project and OIN

True but as the SCO case shows, attacking FOSS is an invitation for a million very annoyed fire ants to come pay you a less then friendly visit.

Will this stop Microsoft and their proxies from future patent related attacks? Probably not, but you can bet they'll think long and hard before going that route again.


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