Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756658AbZD0QPH (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:15:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755073AbZD0QOy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:14:54 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:38976 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752906AbZD0QOy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:14:54 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Steven Rostedt , 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: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:44:13 PDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1240848874_4302P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:14:34 -0400 Message-ID: <49036.1240848874@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1476 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1240848874_4302P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:44:13 PDT, Davide Libenzi said: > 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? The general idea is that if some Big-Linux-Hating-Company comes to you and says "You're infringing our patent #XXZZZY in this module", you want to be able pull out a sheet of paper and say "Yes, and you've shipped 45,348,917 copies of FooBar Release 7, that infringes on *our* patent #YYXXZ. You probably owe us more money than we owe you. But we'll let you walk out the door and never mention it again." If you're old enough to remember the Cold War, it was called Mutually Assured Destruction back then. ;) --==_Exmh_1240848874_4302P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJ9dnqcC3lWbTT17ARApvaAKCw9H5ae7b79AKZzt41SntmqclAzACaA0yA GO7jh8AjMyr/B+iWVtu34UM= =I5fH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1240848874_4302P-- -- 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/