 patents—1600 and
500 respectively—for use by the open source community.  I am not
a lawyer and thus can't evaluate the real utility of these grants, but
even if they are all important patents, and the terms of the grants
make them truly free for use by any open source project, it would
still be only a drop in the bucket.</p></div><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.idp8893504" href="#idp8893504" class="para">35</a>] </sup>See
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