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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by bosswipe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:42PM (#26654084)
Aren't they considered "essential patents" that must be made available at a reasonable price?
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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by extropy on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:13AM (#26657152)
Generally yes. But you would need to spend 3 years in court to get that to work.
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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by exikyut on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:54AM (#26669102)
Follow-on question for the sake of debate: what if you got a bunch of smaller wannabe startups and interests backing a group effort to do exactly this for a pool of things? Would the legal fees scale linearly? :/
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