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Google has been ordered to pay $5M to a small company called Bedrock Computer Technologies for patent infringement. According to the story, MySpace, Yahoo, PayPal, Amazon, AOL and others have all been named as defendants in the suit as well.
A Texas jury has ruled against Google in a suit that alleged some of its use of open-source Linux code amounted to patent infringement, something that could have big implications for other companies using Linux technology and other open-source systems. In the verdict, delivered last week, the jury decided that Google should pay $5 million for the infringement.