Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:39:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, dillon@earth.backplane.com, jlemon@flugsvamp.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200106121639.f5CGdiV94801@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:36:11 PDT." <20010612083611K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010612083611K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200106112302.f5BN2Mx34109@earth.backplane.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010612113132.10932A-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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In message <20010612083611K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes: : The patent system is broken and we need to focus our energies on : reforming it, not on trying to bend ourselves into impossible shapes : to conform to the damage it's done. Exactly. My thoughts are to hell with them. The patent sighted is silly and we should make no efforts to do anything about it in the absense of any direct threat. In addition, I'm not a patent lawyer, so I don't know if our kernel actually violates the patent or not since what we do is slightly different than the patent in question. Is that enough? I don't know. We have more important things to worry about. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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