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Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code
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| Specifically, Red Bend claims that Google's
| Chrome browser violates this patent by
| including an algorithm, called Courgette, that
| lets Google push compressed software updates.
| Of course, plenty of companies have come up
| with various ways to push compressed software
| updates over the years, so I'm at a loss as to
| why it requires a patent... but that's a
| different issue. The problem here is the
| reporting on this lawsuit by Mass High Tech and
| reporter Galen Moore. First, he claims that
| this lawsuit suggests Google's "open-source
| Chrome browser isn't so open source after all."
| Huh? I've read that sentence over and over
| again and I can't figure out how a patent
| dispute would mean that Chrome isn't open
| source. This kind of reporting suggests that a
| patent simply wipes out the type of license
| covering a software.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091028/0159066702.shtml
Recent:
Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It.
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| Frederickson has placed the files he downloaded
| a few days ago on a Rapidshare account for
| anyone to access. You can find them here.
|
| Will Google be pleased about this? Probably not,
| considering they removed the files from the
| Chromium folder shortly after our post. But
| whatever, it's open source, yo.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/14/want-that-early-chrome-os-build-you-got-it/
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