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by euroclydon 3365 days ago
Hi. Certainly, my comment would be applicable to any open source library. But my intent was not to say that OSS software is difficult to get by patent attorneys. Rather I was attempting an inside joke with kindred spirits who have submitted OSS libs to their company's attorneys for patent infringement.

What they seem to do is hire a grunt to do a naive word search match on the patent database. So I was saying, "just imagine the number of results that will come back for 'spreadsheet' or 'Excel'".