http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=184695&f_src=ieupdate
"The conclusion that some hope the [Supreme] court might reach in its final opinion, expected later this spring. Many in the open-source community believe that the ability to legally lock up vague concepts like “look and feel” or broad capabilities like “one-click purchase” unfairly inhibits innovation and gives big commercial software companies a stranglehold on the market that hurts consumers."
"One of the most frustrating situations that sometimes arises is that corporations will patent a business process that has been around for years, which no one else thought was patentable, and then send all pre- existing competitors “cease and desist” letters. Earlier this month, such a situation emerged when Microsoft successfully filed a patent around selective user privilege escalation, which may affect a common Linux- and Unix-based tool called sudo."
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