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- <li><em>date</em>: Mon Feb 9 09:59:18 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu (Bjorn Dittmer-Roche)</li>
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Adrin wrote:
> Everyone has been reading about SCO and Linux. Well, I just read and article about a
> little company in California. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3309531";>http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3309531</a> I
> actually was browsing /. and found it. This type of business worries me. It just seems
> that people are getting patents either through purchase or kind of after the fact, Then
> they just start suing other companies that have already been using the technology. Maybe I
> am wrong on the dates and such, and maybe this company did develop this. It just seems
> wrong to give something away for awhile and then charge later. Maybe I should go file a
> patent for the wheel or something.
I am quite concerned about this with my own comany. Will I get sued
because I didn't patent every detail? I wasn't planned to patent anything,
but maybe I should.....
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