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Cc: millenia2000@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
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>> be well within patent law to apply for a patent.
>
> The patent office has never been very good at examining software
> patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the
> prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them.
good there are people that helps.

Bad that there are patents at all. Not just in software.