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The MS Patent

Posted Apr 30, 2008 12:50 UTC (Wed) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article: Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots

Was investigated on LKML and found to 
have been rejected. MS can still
appeal, of course.

--dave

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The MS Patent

Posted May 1, 2008 4:51 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

Sigh... People really need to learn the difference between a patent application and an issued patent. Any idiot with a big enough pile of cash (on the order of $10K+, IIRC) can apply for a patent...

Greg