Category Archives: Patents

Microsoft and Patents

Ars Tech­nica just ran two con­sec­ut­ive stor­ies that were rather hard to ignore. The first is an intriguing story of how the Elec­tronic Fron­tier Found­a­tion (EFF) and the Apache Soft­ware Found­a­tion — two well known open-source defend­ers and pro­ponents alike, are com­ing to the aid of a cer­tain Microsoft. The law­suit in ques­tion in the