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Patent lawyers tell free software developer to pay $203,000

 
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:45 am    Post subject: Patent lawyers tell free software developer to pay $203,000 Reply with quote
Ben Jacobsen wrote software to let you connect your computer to your model railroad. He chose to
not only give the software away for free, but to make the source code available as well. And then
KAM Industries, maker of commercial software that serves a similar role, sent him an invoice for
$203,000 . When the author of ...read more
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