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Posted in Patents, Quote at 10:54 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“Well, every large program infringes lots of patents. Microsoft has lots of patents. Most large programs, I would expect, infringe some Microsoft patents. This just goes to show why software patents shouldn’t exist.”
— Richard Stallman, in a very recent interview
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“The number [of patents] we found, to anyone familiar with this issue, is so average as to be boring; almost any piece of software potentially infringes at least that many patents. The point of the study was actually to eliminate the FUD about Linux’s alleged legal problems by attaching a quantifiable measure versus the speculation.”
—Dan Ravicher, an attorney and executive director of PUBPAT (the Public Patent Foundation), in a this new article
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