minus-squareluchs@feddit.detoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Tell Congress: Don't Allow The Return Of The Worst Patentslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoPatents have been an issue for Linux before. For example, memory deduplication (KSM) was delayed and modified to avoid a patent on using hashes for this purpose, resulting in a potentially inferior implementation due to patents. linkfedilink
Patents have been an issue for Linux before. For example, memory deduplication (KSM) was delayed and modified to avoid a patent on using hashes for this purpose, resulting in a potentially inferior implementation due to patents.