Linked by David Adams on Tue 4th Apr 2006 15:19 UTC, submitted by anonymous
A company called eSoft was recently granted a patent for "systems and methods for selecting, ordering, installing, managing, updating, and if necessary, uninstalling software applications." Their first step has been to sue their major competitors, but it appears that online software update systems of all kinds could be covered by this patent, which would mean that Windows
Update, OS X Software Update, Redhat's up2date, and YUM, among others, would be infringing.
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Ehm... someone didn't do their background checking...
Well, in this case there will be Microsoft and Apple defending against the patent so I guess we shouldn't worry _that_ much about it...