you'll recall patent lawyer Gene Quinn immediately wrote that it was bad news for Microsoft, that "much of the Microsoft patent portfolio has gone up in smoke" because, as Quinn's partner John White pointed out to him, "Microsoft doesn't make machines." Not just Microsoft. His analysis was that many software patents that had issued prior to Bilski, depending on how they were drafted, "are almost certainly now worthless."
... He was not the only attorney to think about Microsoft in writing about Bilski.
The opinions and interests arrayed against software patents are all good news but prior rulings, case law and obviously absurd claims did not keep M$ from using SCO as a weapon against software freedom and commercial exploitation of GNU/Linux. I will consider the threat over when M$ is bankrupt."
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