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"A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work" - Andy Baio

DateWednesday, March 14, 2012 at 06:06PM

"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."

Read the rest of the article at Wired.
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