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RAND !== F/OSS compatible

RAND !== F/OSS compatible

Posted Feb 22, 2008 6:21 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
In reply to: RAND !== F/OSS compatible by drag
Parent article: Microsoft announces changes to promote interoperability

It feels that 'patents that cover protocols' are supposed to cover the protocols themselves,
and as such, it should be impossible to work around them without deviating from the protocols
by definition. An example of such a patent would probably show the real deal here.


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