Because of over incumbent patents, is it possible to safely develop any software without the risk of legal action?
- by Chris Barry
Take this System and method for restricting user access rights on the internet based on rating information stored in a relational database
There are hundreds of thousands of them out there.
So basically you can't program anything really without breaching one of thousands of software patents.
If your program succeeds you will be sued by someone!
Does this happen all the time and people get silenced?
Do trendy startups get hit by things like this? Surely all major web properties would have been hit by the example above by AT&T?