Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Jul 2009 21:29 UTC
Even though news has been slow the entire week due to the fact that it's summer and people are more interested in vacation than in technology news, we still had a lot of interesting stuff this week. Google obviously captured the headlines with its Chrome OS, but we also talked about Mono, Richard Stallman, and many other things.
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2007-07-25
Yeah, that's the thing with patents. A direct re-implementation of something MS built might infringe a patent, but so might any implementation of a similar concept. The direct copy may be a little more at risk, but not much more so. "
Well, that is of course the problem, and the logical conclusion would be that one can either ignore the entire threat or never make anything at all (including the linux kernel).
However, another argument could be that it would be easier for the more paranoid linux users to accept a non-microsoft API despite the exact same patents apply.