On 07/16/2010 09:18 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:metherid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 07/16/2010 05:27 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > Is there any word (that you've heard by rumor) that indicates > what the > > possible immediate intellectual property problem may be? The bug > > report doesn't specify anything. > > I have no specific knowledge in this case but perhaps patents > > > Err... yes. When you talk intellectual property in software, you talk > patents. So what's the patent that could possibly pretend that you > can't replace "this" with "that". You need to find "this" in a list, > that provide the correction "that". Are there many more basic > exercises in programming? > > Have you heard that OOo 3.2.1 solves this problem? I hope the tab will > be removed before the final release! Man, patents on an equivalence list! It is just unfortunate legal reality that patents on software can cover quite basic ideas. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents Rahul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
