“Alan Cox on software patents”. www.linuxformat.co.uk (2005年8月1日). 2011年5月11日閲覧。 “Patents are much more of a problem. The patents system is essentially a gambling machine for people with no morals[...]”
The Samba Team (2007年12月20日). “The PFIF agreement”. 2011年5月14日閲覧。 “The agreement is, at its heart, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).[...]
The key to this part of the agreement not harming the community and not causing GPL problems
is the "or any third party" wording in section 6.2(b), along with the "or derived therefrom" wording in section 2.2.
That means we aren't just protecting a subset of the community - everyone gets the same protection.[...]”
Berlind, David (2007年10月11日). “First patent suit against Linux has a Kevin Bacon-esque connection to Microsoft”. ZDNet. 2007年10月12日閲覧。 “LLC is a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation... This past July Acacia hired Jonathan Taub away from his job as Director, Strategic Alliances for the Mobile and Embedded Devices (MED) division at Microsoft and then, just last week, it hired Brad Brunell away from his job at Microsoft where, among other jobs, he served as General Manager, Intellectual Property Licensing.”
