Have MSFT eaten Parrot's lunch?

[Peter Corlett]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:29:37AM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007 08:41:40 ben at bpfh.net wrote:
>> The Ruby implementation will be released under a BSD-alike license, and
>> the official advice from the implementor is: "if we at MSFT start doing
>> things with your Ruby implementation, then take what we've done and fork
>> it."
> ... because forking works soooooo well with patents.

How many of those patents are valid in *London*?