On Tuesday 10 April 2007, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote: > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-5375070.html > > Quote from the article from the above link > > <Start> > An artifact of current patent law in the United States > is that companies and individuals are discouraged from > seeing if their products infringe, Ravicher said. > > "If you have knowledge and are found to infringe, a court > can punish you," tripling financial penalties, Ravicher > said. "If you say you didn't know and didn't see it, a > court can't punish you. It's a screwed-up rule." > > Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has taken that > approach. "Finding patent infringement has always been a > responsibility of the patent holders," he said in a 2003 > interview. "It is a fact that I do not encourage > engineers to look up patent information." > <End> > > This is probably why no one is saying anything. > > This time lack of Knowledge is power. Correction the above article is from the link below which was reached from the other link. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5291403.html -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html
