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Would you write OSS covering a possibly patented idea?
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I was modifying a deploy script when I realized how cool a shell script that allowed me to interact with different machines with more ease could be:

// store contents of hosts file on b.com in oldHosts, 
// transfer contents of hosts file on local system to 
// hosts file on b.com.

route :=
  jim@a.com |>
  reza@b.com |>
    sudo su root
    
oldHosts, err := 
  route |>
  > cat /etc/hosts
  
. cat /etc/hosts
  route |>
  > /etc/hosts

First term I google to find similar tech leads me to a patent for something that seems particularly similar, or at least close enough: http://www.google.com/patents/US8627342

Similarities aside in this case - if there was something you were interested in throwing up to github this weekend, and you ran across a patent that seemed to cover the technology, would you write it anyway?

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