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80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented

Posted by timothy on from the minefield-aerobics dept.

perlow writes "ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license? Are Microsoft's patent and intellectual property threats simply the growls of a paper tiger?"

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  1. Re:It only takes one... by Minwee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...and despite repeated requests, they won't tell you which one actually is patented. They will only say that you have infringed upon it.