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| Hans-Christoph Steiner | Nov 18, 2004 4:58 pm |
| Subject: | [PD-ot] Re: [PD] Use Linux and you will be sued | |
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| From: | Hans-Christoph Steiner (ha...@eds.org) | |
| Date: | Nov 18, 2004 4:58:46 pm | |
| List: | at.iem.pd-ot | |
I switched to the Off Topic list, since this is..
Whether or not you support software patents, there are a lot of invalid patents on the books that cause problems. The EFF has a project to get the worst of these patents nullified:
.hc
On Nov 18, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Josh Steiner wrote:
of course microsoft is already battleing dozens of patent lawsuits over windows...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1661094,00.asp
all software is riddled with patent violations, even our beloved PD.
slimboyfatboyslim wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/ballmer_linux_lawsuits/
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