Bite me.

As if I'm an American. You silly northern hemisphere folks and your stupid generalisations ;)

I probably am insensitive, but given how touchy you were, I don't think I needed to mention as being particularly out of the ordinary.

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I had the same reaction re the number of accounts. It is small.

However, Germany isn't all that small.

So some back of the envelope calcs:

They claim 21/.75 = 28M bank accounts in Germany

It's got roughly 80M people. Assume something like 2.2 people per househould (dunno what it is in Germany), and you get 36M. You gotta figure each household has at least one. I don't know how things really work in Germany, but I assume they're like the rest of the developed world and you essentially can't function without a bank account.

Then there are businesses. Even very small businesses will run several accounts.

I think the 28M bank accounts is just bullshit. It's gotta be heaps higher.

Surely 100M wouldn't be that big a figure even?

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Sure, we got entertainment.

Name a single OSS developer they sued?

Again, they went after the money... That's my point.

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Hey,

so there are already a bunch of answers that agree with the basic premise that you may want to protect your name because patent trolls may come after you.

Can anyone give even one concrete example of a patent troll going after an open source contributor? It seems incredibly unlikely to me. Surely they go where the money is - they sue Microsoft or Cisco or similar. Why stuff around suing people that even when you win the pay off is crap?

I think the key premise here is just FUD.

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Why, the same place all the slide rules went, of course.

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