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Story: Patents 'biggest threat' to Linux - Torvalds
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 23 March 2004, 11:30 AM)
SCO's issue is a 'contract' violation with IBM. It has nothing to do with 'patents'. What Linus was referring to AFAIK was stuff like EOLAS and the whole "software patents" debate going on about whether algorithms themselves can be patented. From what I remember the algorithm had to be tied to a specific application and the entire usage could be protected and legislation was being drafted to allow pure algorithms to be 'patented'.
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