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Old 22nd April 2011
thirdm thirdm is offline
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Don't see how that helps BSD. The USL/BSDi/Berkeley case didn't involve patents. If I get what you're saying, then by that line of thought Google shouldn't have had a problem since Linux had lots of legal problems with SCO. But no, that didn't involve patents either and even if it had there's nothing to say changes since might have used patents.

The only way I could think this sort of thing is good for BSD is if it gets users from Linux because they see it as a lower profile free Unix and hope not to be noticed by patent trolls. This seems a pretty cynical kind of hope. Perhaps we should hope Linus Torvalds gets hit by a truck while we're at it.
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