A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work

While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent warehouse. I'm no fan of Facebook, but this is a deplorable move. It's nothing less than extortion, expertly timed during the SEC-mandated quiet period before Facebook's IPO. It?s an attack on invention and the hacker ethic. I have a small supporting role in this story, and I'm not happy about that, either.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/opinion-baio-yahoo-patent-lie/

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