Why waste ammo...
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| AnonymousCoward Oct 08, 2005 2:14 AM CST |
...bouncing the rubble even higher? It's not as if there's even going to be very much rubble to bounce. There's also motivation from the other direction: being seen as a patent "heavy" could work against IBM's public image -- particularly amongst that loose non-federation known as "the Open Source community" or even more so that non-state within the stateless known as "the Free Software community". |
| dinotrac Oct 08, 2005 5:36 AM CST |
I doubt that IBM cares about being seen as a patent "heavy". Everybody knows they have a huge patent portfolio -- including lots and lots of hardware patents. If you've got legitimate patents, defending them doesn't make you a heavy. More likely than not, they've done the cost-benefit analysis and decided not to bother. |
| tadelste Oct 08, 2005 7:33 AM CST |
Also, if they won the case, what would they get out of it - bragging rights? SCO has no mo. |
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