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astrodust on Feb 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—a...

In the case of open-source are you held liable if you even use it inside the US?

wmf on Feb 9, 2012 [–]

Possibly, but you'd have to be making some real money for the trolls to bother targeting you.

lloeki on Feb 9, 2012 | [–]

MAFIAA doesn't wait for you to make some real money before targeting you. Greediness is a bottomless pit.

laumars on Feb 9, 2012 | | [–]

True, but that's copyright IP not patent IP.

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