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by tebruno99 1517 days ago
I understood that it cost Gnome $150k for Gnome to settle and obtain their own exclusive right of usage instead of doing the right thing and fight the patent.
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tedivm 1517 days ago
They got that for free. What the $150k was spent on seems to be anyone's guess.

> https://foundation.gnome.org/2020/05/20/patent-case-against-...

https://foundation.gnome.org/2020/05/20/patent-case-against-...

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throw_m239339 1517 days ago
> I understood that it cost Gnome $150k for Gnome to settle and obtain their own exclusive right of usage instead of doing the right thing and fight the patent.

That's what I meant by "going through", they obviously couldn't fight it in court, would have cost a lot more...

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