Pantent infingments?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/15/07, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Earle Beason <Earle-Beason at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Anybody else know of any possible patents that could have been violated
> > by the open source project as Microsoft has claimed?
>
> MS isn't going to tell.  Doing so will allow developers to code around
> them, or will allow the Software Freedom Law Center to work to prove
> the patent invalid.  They will just use this FUD to extort money from
> large weenie companies who are scared of legal threats.  By revealing
> exactly what patents are infringed, they open the door to people
> working very quickly to remove the infringing parts, and thus making
> the code base immune from further MS claims on those patents.
>
> Jon.


In all fairness, not all patents can be coded around of.


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