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Story: Linux users could face European patent threat
Correct Me If I'm Wrong
It is my understanding that when a patent holder discovers an infringement he has only two course of action, either to pursue with a claim or forget it. This third course of action where Microsoft is holding the so called patent infringements over the heads of the open source community, blackmail style, is not a viable course of action and does, so far as I understand, invalidate any subsequent claim.
A suggestion of an attempted old style protection racket comes to mind.
Moley
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