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The patents

The patents

Posted Aug 8, 2003 5:28 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: The patents by mbp
Parent article: A brief look at IBM's counterclaims

I am not really happy that the legal system works this way, but in this case it's for the good.

Yeah, it is. It's a deal. We open source developers give corporations so damn much value that they can't bear to think of losing it, and we get them on our side when it comes to the minority interest whose ax is gored by UNIX on Intel being a zero-cost item.

Rah, rah economic self-interest, what?


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