That's not how patents work.
One company comes up with something really interesting, and patents it.
If another company wants in on the action, they will have to license the
technology.
But in a way, I like your idea.
If a dozen companies were to simultaneously sue Microsoft to open up Windows
to their competitors...
Oh, wait, you didn't think of that?
Huh. Well, wouldn't it be interesting if that happened? Suppose an established
company (not Apple, obviously) were to get their hands on the whole Windows
code package, and wrote a spiffy Windows GUI and runtime sandbox on top of
Linux?
Hmm. Windows functionality, but NOT from Microsoft.
That's a different can of worms, now isn't it?
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