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Oracle patents content management systems

Oracle patents content management systems

Posted Jul 13, 2004 12:05 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Oracle patents content management systems by ltilby
Parent article: Oracle patents content management systems

For one thing, a free software can easily easablish prior art because all versions are published, and often many of the discussions in mailing lists prior to the publication are published.

Granting a patent is a long process in which some lawyers get some money for something that is basically doesn't worth much to the developer.


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