Les Mikesell wrote: > I think there would be an interesting legal argument that nearly all > potential users have already paid the relevant patent royalties > indirectly in the form of drivers and other software provided by the > hardware vendors of the devices in question (and included in the cost), > or in the copy of Windows they were essentially forced to buy with the > computer. Since they have paid to use the covered algorithms and since > patents cover the process not specific instances, they should be > permitted to use a version of it that actually works. Of course I don't > want to spend my own money to test this argument... Could you say that again in English?
