Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

[John Levine]

>> 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.

The patent office has never been very good at examining software
patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the
prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them.

R's,
John