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Patent trolls start on the open source sector
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| Why go to the effort of developing new software when you can use patents to
| extort other companies? A story about FireStar Software, which has not
| updated its software since 2003, preferring to rely on lawyers rather than
| programmers, to assure its income...
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| http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_20/ai_94390699
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| "Under terms of the agreement FireStar Software and Microsoft and will be
| participating in joint marketing and sales activities targeting Insurance
| companies faced with issues of rapidly developing applications compliant with
| industry standards."
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-74838/patent-trolls-start-on-the-open-source-sector
Shuttleworth's view on patents (Microsoft and all)
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| Shuttleworth smirked and then responded.
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| "I don't believe Microsoft is going to sue any open source software
| vendor, doing so would be tantamount to launching nuclear war."
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/shuttleworths-view-on-patents.html
How naive. They use /PROXIES/. They don't need to attack directly.
Related:
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
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| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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