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Re: Re: W3C ridiculous new policy on patents

• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Amy Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:17:40 -0400 (EDT)

Amy Lewis scripsit:

> Is this deliberate naivete?  A number of "hot" open source projects
> have been shut down due to enforcement of patents ... sometimes patents
> that are defensible, but more often, since most software patents are
> indefensible on their faces, not.

Can you mention some examples?

John the actually (not deliberately) naive

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