> "In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company,"

Holy cow, that’s incredible. Cloudflare has single-handedly shut down one of the biggest tech patent trolls. I don’t know how they possibly got Sable to agree to those terms, but kudos to Cloudflare counsel.

Sabre was a charming little Santa Clara network company, decades ago.

But some incompetent entrepreneurs and a shabby LA law firm tried to win at a patent trolling. The outcome is hilarious only because I am not paying Cloudflare's lawyers.

Discussion on the Cloudflare announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415

Although this is a dupe of a ~1500pt previous discussion, I'd love to see these news on HN front page for several days. It's so delighting to read

Remember, this doesn't mean that you, the small guy, must not patent anything, on the contrary.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415