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Swift and predictable reactions to WebM

Posted May 31, 2010 17:30 UTC (Mon) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260)
In reply to: Swift and predictable reactions to WebM by bboissin
Parent article: Swift and predictable reactions to WebM

For open source perhaps, but triple damage on google just means the patent trolls can buy an even bigger villa at some tropical island..

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Posted May 31, 2010 17:41 UTC (Mon) by bboissin (subscriber, #29506) [Link]

But it's very likely that Google engineers (and others from big companies) do read patents, and use their legal dpt to check for potential infrigement. The problem is different than the usual small OSS project.