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Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:I thought Yahoo used BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yahoo uses a combination of RHEL, BSD 6/7, and a shitload of BSD4. Supporting two OSs (actually more like three) is a huge pain in the ass. So is dealing with the BSD old guard vs the new Linux people. Personally they should have dropped BSD during the BSD5 days and gone straight Linux. Would have simplified their system immensely.