Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262471AbVCCK1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:27:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262440AbVCCK1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:27:52 -0500 Received: from gate.firmix.at ([80.109.18.208]:43909 "EHLO gate.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262414AbVCCK1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:27:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609] From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: gene.heskett@verizon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4226927A.6010107@utah-nac.org> References: <4226781B.7080302@utah-nac.org> <200503022227.40614.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <4226927A.6010107@utah-nac.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Message-Id: <1109845583.28561.19.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5.5 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:26:24 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1792 Lines: 42 On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:28 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >>Another Linux patent..... ... and another - AFAICS obvious - trivial ("prior art") patent (but I'm not fluent in patent quak, I'm just a simple systems engineer). And one more reason to sent the European software patent directive simply to hell, clarify in ?52.2 to not patentability of "software" discarding the word play of the patent attorneys and offices and get into the head of the folks of the EPO (with whatever means are necessary). > >And that pretty much says it. Assigned to the Canopy Group. So SCO > >will have yet another lawsuit to threaten us with. If they survive Apparently Canopy Group/SCO/... are not of the front of innovation since "what is new on a RAID system in any way in 2005"? > >the thrashing I've Been Moved will give them at the end of the day. > > > The way to fight the patents is for Linux developers to file their own > and start putting down stakes. Or simply drop the whole patent system as such. Apparently it is only abused to make money of the inventions of others and for sure does not help innovation as such in any way (it may help the lawyers, offices and companies in that area - patent utilisation - to get rich but that area has nothing to do with innovation). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/