Attorney and former computer programmer, Richard Santalesa, has analyzed the recent $5 million verdict against Google in the ongoing Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. Google et al. patent litigation, which has focused on various alleged infringement arising from uses by Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) within the Linux kernel. The litigation is far from over, but this latest development may have interesting ramifications for the Linux community moving forward and potentially for the growing call for software patent reform.
The entire analysis is available here.
