Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757106AbXFYWE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752870AbXFYWES (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:04:18 -0400 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:52062 "EHLO clueserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751861AbXFYWER (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:04:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:04:16 -0700 (PDT) From: alan X-X-Sender: alan@blackbox.fnordora.org To: Graeme Sheppard cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea In-Reply-To: <46803772.7020408@rillion.net> Message-ID: References: <46803772.7020408@rillion.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: 827 Lines: 21 On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Graeme Sheppard wrote: > Dear devs, > > In a moment of serendipity I thought of a concept which may be advantageous > if incorporated into the kernel. I was going to offer it to the OIN but > they responded they only consider existing patents and I don't have the > money to afford one. How do you know it is a new idea? -- "ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined. ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..." - Alan Cox - 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/