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Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:21AM from the yahoo-therefore-stronger-than-google dept.

jfruhlinger writes "You may recall the saga of patent troll Bedrock, which claims that it has patents over Linux and successfully sued Google over Google's Linux use. Well, the verdict from Bedrock's suit against Yahoo on similar grounds has come in — and Yahoo is victorious, not least because Yahoo went second and got to see how the arguments in the Google case went."

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And the perfect car analogy would be: (Score:5, Insightful)

by zill ( 1690130 ) writes: on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:23AM (#36118354)

Slipstreaming.

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Bedrock's Code? (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:52AM (#36118862)

If google inadvertently ran bedrock's code, does that mean they went beyond patenting obvious stuff and into submitting code into gnu/linux that was intentionally patent encumbered?

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Re:Appeal? (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 13, 2011 @12:09PM (#36119126)

Yahoo ... used a different form of Linux
i.e. FreeBSD?

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