Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756203AbZD0Ovl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:51:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932141AbZD0OsR (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:48:17 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:59564 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932133AbZD0OsO (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:48:14 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@makko.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Steven Rostedt cc: Andi Kleen , Huang Ying , Robert Richter , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Hidetoshi Seto Subject: Re: Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1240391484.6842.474.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <20090422092259.GC18226@elte.hu> <20090422101600.GL3226@erda.amd.com> <1240553210.6842.871.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <20090424100943.GJ27264@erda.amd.com> <1240818596.6842.1001.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <49F5646F.4000305@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 30 On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Once it is filed then I can post it, I do not need to wait till it is > done. > > And what the hell do you mean about not using patents?? We have several > patents in the kernel. Have you ever heard of the Open Invention Network? > > http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ > > This patent will go under the Open Source patent pool to help > protect against patent attacks against Linux, et. al. > > Yes, the Open Source community can file their own patents. The more > patents owned by the Open Source community, the better. IANAL, but what is the point of it? If that's for OSS IP protection against Evil Corporate claims, isn't the only fact that you posted the code and algorirthm, constitutes Prior Art, that would automatically protect your contribution from future claims? - Davide -- 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/