I'm reading High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson which is the story of Frontpage, how the startup came up and then was finally acquired by big bad MS.
Ferguson stresses on the importance of getting patents and stressed that one of the reasons they made an attractive acquisition was because of the number of patents they held. Going through VentureBlog it sems VCs treat patents as a necessary evil. "Get them because everyone else is getting them, but hope you never have to use them..."
I'm not sure what effect such patents would have on Flash development. Imagine if Brandon had patented his ACK engine and such. I think having a certain amount of technology out in the open is necessary for innovation. Patenting just stiffles it...
BTW MS themselves are in trouble over some IE patents...
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