Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:46:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:46:00 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-021-187.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.21.187]:65205 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:46:00 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Rob Landley , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:47:01 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: frankeh@watson.ibm.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, David Mosberger , "David S. Miller" , gh@us.ibm.com, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorpy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

<200208131351.g7DDpuf261384@pimout5-ext.prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <200208131351.g7DDpuf261384@pimout5-ext.prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 21 On Tuesday 13 August 2002 10:51, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:44 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote: > So you would object to microsoft granting rights to its patents saying "you > can use this patent in software that runs on windows, but use it on any other > platform and we'll sue you", but you don't mind going the other way? You missed the point. I was talking about using copyright against patents, and specifically in the case where patents are held by people who also want to use the copyrighted code. The intention is to help keep our friends honest. Dealing with Microsoft, or anyone else whose only motivation is to obstruct, is an entirely separate issue. -- Daniel - 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/