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See my remark about impossible audits. Patent trolls are almost definitely relying on FOSS whether they're in the business of creating software or not.
by carussell 9y ago
See my remark about impossible audits. Patent trolls are almost definitely relying on FOSS whether they're in the business of creating software or not.
- kijin 9y agoIf I were a patent troll, I would get a Windows computer with a slightly old version of Microsoft Office and nothing else on it. Even if the entire FOSS community decided to adopt a patent termination clause right now, it cannot retroactively apply to whatever fragments of FOSS code that has found its way into proprietary products so far. So I'm safe as long I don't install any new software until I'm done trollin'. Your idea would make sense If all the FOSS that was ever written came with a patent termination clause. But that's not the world we live in.