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yosefk on March 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: ReactOS was selected for Google Summer of Code 201...

Why then does MS work on Bing? Bing is more likely to infringe on Google's patents than a Windows clone is likely to infringe on MS's patents, not? And Bing is certainly lots of work.

pjc50 on March 1, 2016 [–]

There isn't an API issue there though, and it's not required to work in the same way so it's hard to say that it's more likely to infringe patents.

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