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Patents Don't Apply to Source Code

Patents Don't Apply to Source Code

Posted Nov 22, 2006 16:51 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Patents Don't Apply to Source Code by GreyWizard
Parent article: Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat

Not all behavior is exposed to the user. You won't tell a Linux kernel with RCU from the one without RCU except by comparing their performance.


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Patents Don't Apply to Source Code

Posted Nov 22, 2006 17:24 UTC (Wed) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]

True, but then a propietary company has to tell everyone that they have RCU since they need to make a selling point ;-)

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