Microsoft has reached a settlement in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed last year by Vertical Computer Systems, according to a filing by the mediator in the case: PDF, 1 page. The Fort Worth, Texas, company's complaint alleged that Microsoft's .Net development system violated a patent issued to Vertical in November 2004.
Here is a good new video that demonstrates how patent trolls and their little extortions come about. ⬆
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
To efficiently and rapidly find original and important news without underlying comprehension/understanding of the news (and its context) is a hard task
