Comment: Microsoft co-founder is not a troll
02 September 2010
Managing Intellectual Property
Florian Mueller, an avid anti-software patent activist, is surprisingly in favour of Paul Allen’s right to sue a number of internet companies
Managing IP summarises some of his thoughts on the topic, as posted on his blog Foss Patents.
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| Florian Mueller |
Not a troll
"To me a troll is someone who never contributes in any serious way to innovation and simply leverages the patent system (which has serious problems, let there be no doubt about it) for his purposes. Entrepreneurs who have actually proven - in Paul Allen's case multiple times - that they can build real...
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