Ensuring Patents Foster Innovation in Open Source

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 24, 2022 2:58 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Dan Whiting
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So, I am old enough to remember when the U.S. Congress temporarily intervened in a patent dispute over the technology that powered BlackBerries. A U.S. Federal judge ordered the BlackBerry service to shutdown until the matter was resolved, and Congress determined that BlackBerry service was too integral to commerce to be allowed to be turned off. Eventually, RIM settled the patent dispute and the BlackBerry rode off into technology oblivion.

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