[Gllug] re: software dowloads patent

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 16 Jun Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Richard Jones announce to the hordes:
> > Earliest patent filed in May '94, which means there's likely to be a
> > lot of prior art from, eg., Unix distribution.
> > 
> > However, none of that matters unless you happen to have $2m lying
> > around to challenge the patent in court.
> 
> Fortunately, the most likely targets of this patent attack are likely to be
> the very ones who're rolling in it.

So they'll start out by attacking those who can't defend themselves, to
get themselves some nice healthy court victories.  Then they can go
after the big boys, once they have precedent.

doug.

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