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Evidence or urban legend - "problems" companies haveEvidence or urban legend - "problems" companies havePosted May 21, 2011 5:40 UTC (Sat) by faramir (subscriber, #2327)In reply to: Evidence or urban legend - "problems" companies have by dneary Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
>Then no software is free.
Are you saying that ALL software is covered by
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Evidence or urban legend - "problems" companies have Posted May 21, 2011 6:29 UTC (Sat) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] It seems plausible to me. There are so many of them, so vague and so broad. And software contains so many parts that might infringe. It seems unlikely that there would be no overlap, for any program that does anything useful.Either way, how can you prove for any piece of software that it's not covered by any patents?
Evidence or urban legend - "problems" companies have Posted Jun 5, 2011 5:47 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
I'm pretty sure that any non-trivial piece of software is covered or might seem covered by at least one patent. And it doesn't really matter if the patent is stupid & obvious, or that the patent only seems to cover the software at first glance if you look at it from a weird angle but really doesn't, if a company with deep pockets sues you over it, you're screwed.
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