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Prior art and obviousness
Prior art and obviousness
Posted Apr 25, 2007 20:53 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Prior art and obviousness by dmarti
Parent article: Apple sued over vague user interface patent (ars technica)
That's only going to be true to a certain extent.
In situations were open source companies produce software that rivals closed source company fro market share then they _will_ sue you. It doesn't matter if both companies are smart and run by good people, their shareholders will demand that they do something to stop the loss of business to other companies.
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