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Re: [xml-dev] Re: W3C ridiculous new policy on patents
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: Amy Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:17:40 -0400 (EDT)
Amy Lewis scripsit:
> Is this deliberate naivete? A number of "hot" open source projects
> have been shut down due to enforcement of patents ... sometimes patents
> that are defensible, but more often, since most software patents are
> indefensible on their faces, not.
Can you mention some examples?
John the actually (not deliberately) naive
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