"I’m pretty certain that, within a few years, Microsoft themselves will be strong advocates against software patents," Shuttleworth [Gründer des Ubuntu-GNU/Linux-Distributors Canonical, D.L.] wrote. "Microsoft is irrevocably committed to shipping new software every year, and software patents represent landmines in their roadmap which they are going to step on, like it or not, with increasing regularity."

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"Microsoft will lose a patent trench war if they start one, and I’m sure that cooler heads in Redmond know that," he wrote. "The real threat to Linux is the same as the real threat to Microsoft, and that is a patent suit from a person or company that is NOT actually building software, but has filed patents on ideas that the GNU project and Microsoft are equally likely to be implementing."

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But even such companies - sometimes known as "patent trolls", although Shuttleworth said he himself dislikes the term - are not themselves the real enemy. "They are only following the rules laid out in law, and making the most of a bad system," he wrote.
[Techworld]

Die Sache verspricht also, spannend zu werden. Wenn es sich dabei auch nicht um die Art von Spannung handelt, die ich besonders goutiere.