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“Patents:
“* Mechanism for intuitively invoking one or more auxiliary
* Method and apparatus for virtualization of appliances“Other (unspecified) patents are pending.
“This may open the door to yet another lock in scenario. And
possibly even worse than the actual
force-Windows-on-every-consumer. Thruth to be said, so far, the
approach of splashtop toward developers seems much more open that
Apple’s and Microsoft’s, but patents always raise concerns, no
matter what:“* as patenting means Splashtop will be the only player in the
BIOS-as-OS business
* or will be anyway more cheap than commercial competitors”