Red Hat gets offensive in its patent strategy

Mar 16, 2009, 12:01 (4 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jack Wallen)

"This reminds me of the jokes tossed around in the 1990s of Microsoft threatening to patent ones and zeros. Although the ones and zeros patent idea was a joke, the idea was not far off. Microsoft was attempting to offensively patent everything it could."

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