The good patents are the silent ones, the ones broken by people who have never known of the patent, who describe it in some other but equally unique, novel and

The good patents are the silent ones, the ones broken by people who have never known of the patent, who describe it in some other but equally unique, novel and non-trivial way. Along the same lines, Red Hat (and others, even self-employed full time open source coders) may talk about implementing something useful, but not make reference to the patent. I'm sure we're heard of something that was patented for OSS, but not as a patent, as a program feature.