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Patent threats?!

Posted Jul 20, 2009 22:28 UTC (Mon) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Patent threats?! by drag
Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel

[...] that is something that would not stand up in court.

Maybe not, but the workings of the U.S. judicial system guarantee that it could take years, and (optimistically) tens of thousands of dollars. For many people, the difference between this and losing is negligible.

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