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tocomment on Dec 9, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: A no-fly zone to protect Linux from patent trolls

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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