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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by njl on Thursday September 20, 2012 @10:45AM (#4548784)
They're all protected by patents. All of them. I can pretty much guarantee you that any of IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intellectual Ventures, and many others have sufficient patent coverage to be able to sue you for anything you could possibly build that involves software in any way.

[edited to scope it to software]

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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by dfc on Thursday September 20, 2012 @10:53AM (#4548823)
You do realize that the world is bigger than just software development?
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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by sirtaptap on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:06AM (#4548896)
Well, this is a site for developers. It's reasonable to assume one's talking about "building" software or something tech related.
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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by nitrogen on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:04PM (#4550135)
You do realize that software development permeates everything in the world?
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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by dumb_dumb on Friday September 21, 2012 @01:04AM (#4552397)
Doesn't mean they're going to win.
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Re:AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by nitrogen on Friday September 21, 2012 @03:09PM (#4555220)
Lawsuits aren't always about winning. Sometimes they're about bullying and showing dominance. Sometimes they're about stalling a competing product while you finish your own. In the case of a big company or troll going after a small company, drawn out legal battles are used to bleed the company dry until they settle or go bankrupt.
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