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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
How can the law allow these guys to sit on alleged patents for 10 years and then come back and claim everyone owes them money.
It's bullshit.
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in this case it's 20 years. they didn't make the stuff either, they bought the stuff from at&t. it sucks ass, especially when they're basically saying "everyone except sun owes us money". the worst part is they are going after _end users_. i think what will ultimately happen is the *nix world will rewrite everything to exclude their code, basically. but SCO is saying that some of their code is obfuscated. which, if you've seen some obfuscated code, that's going to be damn near impossible for them to _prove_. so, who knows.