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. -- 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
