On February 2, 2019, Van Lindberg served as a featured speaker at FOSDEM 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Lindberg discussed, "The Surprising Interaction of Open Source and Patent Exhaustion."
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"The Surprising Interaction of Open Source and Patent Exhaustion," FOSDEM 2019
A patent acts as a legal tool, granting inventors exclusive rights over a specific timeframe, preventing unauthorized creation, usage,...