On 11/16/05, Jeffrey V. Merkey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone needs ping Novell about patent 6,728,959 for SMP Strong
> Affinity and get it added to the patent commons project at OSDL. It
> will help defeat any claims brought by that certain Lindon Utah company
> owning SMP in Linux. I noticed Novell has signed up but not placed any
> patents into the project. Just thought I'd remind folks. Linux uses
> strong affinity in much of its architecture. Having that patent in the
> commons will remove any claims that Linux SMP infringes Unix.
Interesting. We're researching a piece on "Patent Commons" at the
moment (linuxuser.co.uk) so I'll pass that along.
Jon.
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