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leclerc65
March 28th, 2012, 03:52 PM
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-03-28-004-41-IN-LL
Paqman
March 28th, 2012, 03:59 PM
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a slightly chunky Finnish kernel dev!
zombifier25
March 28th, 2012, 04:00 PM
Score one for ze team!
JDShu
March 28th, 2012, 05:16 PM
I guess one of the nice things about open source development is that prior art is very easy to identify by everybody. Unfortunately open source developers also suffer disproportionately from the patent system.
nutrapi
March 29th, 2012, 05:53 PM
the u.s. patent system sucks.