Alan Cox wrote:
Which still leaves open the question of how many times you have to pay
to license the same patent for the same device, or whether you can
Typically each time you buy a device indirectly (and you also pay
indirectly for the patent office through taxes, the cost of patent
lawsuits through product prices, insurance against patent lawsuits
again through product prices) etc.
rearrange the bits in one licensed program?
Don't know. Ask a patent lawyer
Lawyers sometimes win, sometimes lose when their opinions are tested in
court. How would I know I'm asking the one that would win?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
