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Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free? |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:45:36 -0500 |
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In article <13lunajqrved3a6@corp.supernews.com>,
Andy Baxter <news5@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> And someone suggested
> elsewhere on this list that big companies rarely sue each other because
> they infringe patents all the time so avoid having a knockdown drag out
> fight for no good reason?
Or they establish blanket cross-licensing agreements with each other, so
that they both come out ahead.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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