From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 13 10:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812A237B401 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from koester@x-itec.de) Received: from localhost (pD904950F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.4.149.15]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA19618 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:55:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 5441 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 19:55:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO computer.winclient.x-itec2.de) (192.168.0.1) by 192.168.0.99 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 19:55:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:55:27 +0200 From: Boris X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal Reply-To: Boris X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5213963478.20010613195527@x-itec.de> To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: bv@wjv.com, bill@wjv.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010613103509Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010613094546.F79593@wjv.com> <20010613103509Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello , Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 7:35:09 PM, you wrote: is there a real problem in the US because of patented algos in FreeBSD? I think its a very bad situation for the US people, a big company can patent a lot of routines to stop other projects like freebsd, or not? I hope to get some interesting answers about this topic. I am happy that in our country is not the problem at the moment. Patents are the death for all of us developers -((((((((( -- Boris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message