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Subject: RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
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> 
> 
> Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source
> technologies after the fact?

The prior art stipulations pretty much kills that off, unless they make a
genuine improvement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would
be well within patent law to apply for a patent.