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How has this affected open source efforts?

• dijit 9y ago
  Because software patents apply to open source software too.
  • C7H8N4O2 9y ago
    "How has this affected open source efforts?" can be read as either Why is it possible for [situation] to affect open source efforts? or In what way(s) has [situation] affected open source efforts?
    • always_good 9y ago
      The latter being more charitable because it also answers the first question and can assume the asker at least has a semblance of why it might be possible.
      • olefoo 9y ago
        That was the sense I meant. If the US military is using patents like that I would want to know and be surprised that I had not heard about it already. It seems like the sort of thing that would have been talked about on the internet a lot.