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But if you are using ideas from their software, you are infringing patents too.



I'm obviously not condoning patent infringement. The idea is to learn from useful ideas and implement a non-infringing equivalent as an open source project. You can't patent "math", or "computer science", or ideas comparably broad.


you shouldn't be able to patent a query language for a graph either but here we are


Well duh thats the idea. Then they can sue you. More work for FB's legal team too.




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