Patent Trolls Are Getting Smarter

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 06/13/2008 - 15:10

LinuxWorld: "But it is the first time that all the pieces have come together: a lawsuit against an open source vendor followed by a settlement in which the troll grants a broad open source patent license..."


 

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