Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755056AbXACI7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:59:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755055AbXACI7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:59:33 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:53065 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755054AbXACI7c (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:59:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers) From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Horst H. von Brand" Cc: Trent Waddington , "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , Erik Mouw , Giuseppe Bilotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200701021923.l02JNrnV020102@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <200701021923.l02JNrnV020102@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:59:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1167814760.8732.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Spam-Score: -2.411 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.411 required=5 X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.411 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 37 On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:23 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Bernd Petrovitsch 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 Probably if -) I actually found something and -) the patent holder also believes in it (and he will - IMHO very probably - pay another expert to verify the findings) and -) the patent holder actually persues the infringements and -) the law suit goes that far and. > legally demostrable expertise in the area isn't easy, I suppose. At least in .at you need some kind of "official approval" to become an "expert in court" (in German: "Gutachter" - Is "assessor" the correct translation? http://dict.leo.org/ lists 9 different words). Actually this is a somewhat different job .... 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/