Message-Id: <200701021923.l02JNrnV020102@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
cc: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com>,
       "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
       Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>,
       Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers) 
In-Reply-To: Message from Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> 
   of "Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:06:33 BST." <1167739593.13369.27.camel@tara.firmix.at> 
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:23:53 -0300
From: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:

[...]

> I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed
> price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an
> infringement on a list of given patents" so the patent holder has to
> list the patents and the amount of my time to invest (and then he will
> get a price for it and no guarantees of success).

And them you'd have to testify (as an expert witness, AFAIU). Having
legally demostrable expertise in the area isn't easy, I suppose.
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