Re: [AD] legal stuff: patents

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Chris La Mantia wrote:
> I'm sure some
company will probably show up someday claiming a patent on "a method of
displaying images on a display terminal" and sue every graphic library
programmer on earth....

IIRC SEGA had such a patent at one point.

In general, software patents tend to be used like WMD: For mutually assured destruction.


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