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Submission + - Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe (cnet.com)

Submitted by blair1q on Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:27PM

blair1q writes: cnet reports that Google has lost the lawsuit brought by Bedrock, is infringing on Patent 5,893,120 "Methods and apparatus for information storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data," and has exposed the Linux kernel, in which the infringing code reportedly appears, to liability for patent-license fees. RedHat also participated in the suit, arguing that the patent was invalid, but the court decided otherwise.

Comment Re:Its GPL licenced, someone should fork it. (Score 4, Informative) 408

by Stephen Parks on Friday May 01, 2009 @08:37PM (#27794935) Attached to: NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus

Why is this even a nontrivial software project?

Surrogates. The arms race is going on more than one front. From what I understand, on sites that use returns from ad-tracking scripts like google-analytics or yieldmanager to block access, NoScript has the ability to run surrogate scripts that give the appropriate return without the ad-tracking. This seems non-trivial.

However, now knowing how embroiled the author of NoScript is in getting his own ads viewed, users may lose their trust in his surrogate scripts.

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