Hmm... this is an interesting concept. Microsoft is getting a lot of money for innovations in software -- FREE software -- whose license originally forbade anyone from preventing others from using the same software and PATENTING it.
In other words -- it's okay to sell a product and use Linux to sell it. That is fine. But if your product uses Linux, the license specifically states that anyone can come along, modify the product, and sell it as well -- without having to pay any licensing fees.
This is the idea behind "free" software. The idea isn't to prevent people from making money off of the sale of that product -- it is intended to prevent people from preventing OTHERS from doing the same thing.
It's like, you know -- we have water all around us. I can walk down the street to a creek, bottle it, and sell it. I can't prevent my neighbor from doing the same thing. Each of us can come up with different ways to market our respective products ("MINE tastes better because I don't FART in it like HE does...!!!") but I can't explicitly prevent him from selling his brand of water -- no matter how farty it is.
But seriously -- I wonder how this whole patent thing would stand up in cour--
Ah, forget it.