Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161003AbVKPXPV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:15:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030565AbVKPXPV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:15:21 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:4736 "EHLO vger.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030564AbVKPXPU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:15:20 -0500 Message-ID: <437BA9AA.6000208@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:50:34 -0700 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: OSDL Patent Commons for Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 15 Someone needs ping Novell about patent 6,728,959 for SMP Strong Affinity and get it added to the patent commons project at OSDL. It will help defeat any claims brought by that certain Lindon Utah company owning SMP in Linux. I noticed Novell has signed up but not placed any patents into the project. Just thought I'd remind folks. Linux uses strong affinity in much of its architecture. Having that patent in the commons will remove any claims that Linux SMP infringes Unix. Jeff - 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/