How Mono got into Fedora [LWN.net]

How Mono got into Fedora

Posted Apr 18, 2006 7:00 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: How Mono got into Fedora by im14u2c
Parent article: How Mono got into Fedora

Sadly this approach has no effect whatsoever on patent-trolls which I'm thinking are going to be the main actors in suing over claimed patents.

If you make nothing, produce zero, has no products, infact consist as a company of nothing more whatsoever except a bunch of lawyers and a few patents, then even the biggest portofolio in the world of patents from which to "counter-sue" will help precisely not at all.

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How Mono got into Fedora

Posted Apr 18, 2006 14:35 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

Absolutely true, which is why it is _critical_ that OIN is not the _only_ line of defence against patents.

One shopuld also keep in mind that if Company A wishes to destroy open source product B, which is protectedby OIN, all company A has to do is spin of a new company C, which can then buy a patent related to B, and use this to crush B.

Even so, an organization like OIN is still a very powerful defence against most patent abuse.