On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, grumpy wrote:
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It won't go anywhere because micro$ux would have to release their source code
to prove infringement
You are thinking copyright. If there is a _patent_ violation all they
would need to do is point to the patent - they are public documents (they
have to be, with a few specific exceptions such as where the government
can premptively classify a patent for national security reasons).
They don't even have to be using the patent for anything. They most
certainly would not have to release any source code.
--
Benjamin Franz
"It is moronic to predict without first establishing an error rate
for a prediction and keeping track of one’s past record of accuracy."
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness
