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Re: [News] Microsoft Quick to Criticise GPLv3, Accused of Patent Trolling

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Quick to Criticise GPLv3, Accused of Patent Trolling
  • From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:59:40 +0200
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BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> 
>> Tech companies, investors clash over patent law
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Large technology players such as Oracle, Microsoft and eBay have
>> | lamented what some call a "broken" U.S. patent system prone to the
>> | rise of so-called "trolls" who sit on broad or obvious patents to
>> | extort exorbitant settlements from deep-pocketed companies like theirs.
>> `----
>> 
>>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6171866.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
>> http://tinyurl.com/yqan8x
>> 
>
> Yes, but also Oracle, MS (I don't know Ebay's place in this) are trying to
> sit on patents that don't belong to them too.
>
> The whole patent scam is wrong. But these names can not grumble at other
> patent trolls doing what they themselves are trying to do.

What is the patent "scam"?

Do you disagree with all patents?

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