Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269171AbUJTLxu (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:53:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270077AbUJTLwO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:52:14 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:8832 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270122AbUJTLu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:50:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:49:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Lee Revell cc: Ryan Anderson , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout In-Reply-To: <1098247307.23628.91.camel@krustophenia.net> Message-ID: References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> <20041020034524.GD10638@michonline.com> <1098245904.23628.84.camel@krustophenia.net> <1098247307.23628.91.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1567 Lines: 37 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:18, Lee Revell wrote: >> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:45, Ryan Anderson wrote: >>> RCU - originally a paper, implemented in Dynix and in other operating >>> systems from the paper (and patent), implemented in Linux as well. >> >> You could also make a strong argument that that patent is invalid >> because RCU is obvious. > > (replying to myself to avert flames) OK, after reading the RCU docs, in > all fairness there is a lot more to it than I described, in particular > the database analogy is not quite valid because most of the hard parts > are handled automagically by the DB. But, my point remains valid, RCU > seems like too general a concept to be patentable, and would probably be > obvious to many people on this list. > > Lee > Next SCO will show that some company they bought in bankrupcy for a dollar had patented register move instructions, to whit; "The copying of the contents of one register to another without changing the contents of the source register...." Then they will require that Intel, Motorola, and others pay them billions and billions.... It's all lawyering (spelled wrong). Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips). 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/