

Implications of the lawsuit could stretch far and wide across IT industry










Google will likely appeal the verdict.

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RE: Jury in Eastern Texas?
By augiem on 4/27/2011 9:50:44 PM , Rating: 2
I agree with you. Did you know even colors have been patented? But I guess my point really was, how can you possibly even know if you're infringing on patents when there are millions of them and they're ludicrously broad. Even if you're just joe teenager programming a game in your spare time, you're very likely to accidentally reinvent something that's been granted a patent. Having your source code be open just opens the doors to the patent trolls. They're not going to bother you until you're uber successful. But even so, if it were not open, they'd likely never find out.

