Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM's and Google's Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux | Linux Today

Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux

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Roy Schestowitz
Dec 13, 2016

An outline of one week’s news regarding software patents in the United States, with special emphasis placed on key foes and allies of GNU/Linux

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Roy Schestowitz

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