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		A no-fly zone to protect Linux from patent trolls (cnn.com)
		3 points by chaostheory on Dec 9, 2008 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

lehmannro on Dec 14, 2008 | [–]

Just for future reference the actual address is http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/08/a-no-fly-zo...

tocomment on Dec 9, 2008 | [–]

But software patents are so vague. You'd have to submit every line of code in Linux for this to work, right?

Didn't someone patent storing a wishlist in a database? So wouldn't this need to list storing X in a Y for all X and Y?

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