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____/ Homer on Thursday 28 Jan 2010 00:42 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Acacia and Microsoft settle litigation
>
> Not really.
>
> One of the Vole's shell companies pretended to sue its parent, in order
> to support the illusion that its not a shell company. After a quick
> round of play-fighting, they kissed and made up, so now Acacia can
> resume its activities as a proxy to attack Microsoft's enemies (e.g.
> using subsidiaries like IP Innovation, LLC. to attack Red Hat), and
> Acacia now has a conveniently prefabricated excuse to dismiss any
> evidence that might show any conspiracy between the two companies.
>
> Is there anyone out there naive enough to believe otherwise?
Another thing. For those dismissing it as far-fetched, here is something from
/months/ ago:
Attack of the Patent Proxies
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| This is truly bizarre. Why would Microsoft unload a bunch of âLinux-
| focused patentsâ - stuff you would think it would fondle lovingly as it
| ruminated endlessly on the damage they might do in terms of FUD, if
| nothing else. But no, not only does Microsoft sell them, but they end up
| in positively the worse place possible, from Microsoft's point of view:
| a Linux-friendly bunch with the avowed aim of keeping such patents
| safely locked away.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2505&blogid=14
Patently Opaque
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| What was in this lot of 22 patents that would
| specifically worry the Linux community? The OIN
| supplied The H with a list of the patents:
|
| * Encoding a URL into the playback of a media file
| (5987509, 6499057, 5774666, 6963906)
| * Broadcasting video over distributed networks
| (6005600, 6792468, 7448062)
| * Launching a browser and sending it to a URL by
| clicking an icon (5737560, 5877767, 6072491,
| 7032185)
| * Launching applications through a movie (5745713)
| * Colour space conversions (5946113, 6147772)
| * Web page annotations (6081829, 6571295)
| * Web publishing hypertext (5890170)
| * Web publishing and editing with templates
| (6026433)
| * A Method for painting on a computer (5182548)
| * Virtual Address Translation (6205531)
| * Dynamically generating graphics for the web on the
| server (6098092)
| * Dynamic information clipping service (5649186)
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Patently-Opaque-What-were-those-22-open-source-patents--/features/114293
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