Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:32:11PM -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> > 
> > Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source
> > technologies after the fact?
> 
> The prior art stipulations pretty much kills that off, unless they make a
> genuine improvement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would
> be well within patent law to apply for a patent.

. . . in theory.  In practice, if you don't have the resources to mount a
serious defense against a deep-pockets patent holder, prior art isn't
going to get you far.

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