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I'm waiting for patent war on open source. Apple, Microsoft etc can kill any competing open source project using their patent pool. Has this happened already?
by dejw 5y ago
I'm waiting for patent war on open source. Apple, Microsoft etc can kill any competing open source project using their patent pool. Has this happened already?
- snovv_crash 5y agoPatent enforcement typically requires shipping a product. The open source projects themselves would be fine, but downstream users of the code could be forced to license. See for example exFAT on Android.