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Re:What The New Patent Reform Act Means For Innovation by ScottBev on Friday September 09, 2011 @02:22PM (#2979254)
How will this change OSS development? Do we need additional patent lawyers filing patents for every open source idea? What happens when someone makes a commit today and then mega-patent troll notices this tomorrow? They certainly will beat me to filing the patent.
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Re:What The New Patent Reform Act Means For Innovation by maratd on Friday September 09, 2011 @04:53PM (#2979798)
It won't, as long as you clearly comment your code and explain what everything is and what it does. You should be doing that anyway for an OSS project.
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