Texas Jury Duns Google $5 Million in Linux Case

Texas Jury Duns Google $5 Million in Linux Case: "Google has been ordered to pay $5 million by an East Texas jury that found for Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC in an almost two-year-old Linux-related patent case.
The jury found the patent valid.
Patent watcher Florian Mueller, who broke the story, says the case has “major implications for the IT industry in general and for Linux in particular…Many companies using Linux have already been required by the patent holder to pay royalties, and many more will now, based on this jury verdict, elect to pay.”
Mueller says the decision also has “ramifications for Google’s Linux-based Android mobile operating system.”

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