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Getting Forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But has the original author the patent?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, but they definitely could file one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Huge cost out of spite is something a person doing open source is unlikely to do.