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Open Source "State of the Union" addressOpen Source "State of the Union" addressPosted Aug 7, 2003 18:09 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)Parent article: Open Source "State of the Union" address Great talk Bruce! Having the Unix source handed over to FSF would be sweet payback :) BP> we've not heard of software patent cases being pursued This is true but court cases aren't the main form of attack. Free software projects have been affected directly and indirectly. Here's a list of them: http://www.sslug.dk/patent/fri-software-med-problemer The best example is probably Virtualdub, GPL'd video editting software. Microsoft informed the author that he'd have to remove support for it's ASF video format since they had a patent on it. There was no court case because the Virtualdub author couldn't afford it. http://www.goldenpi.no-ip.org/drm/asf.txt This doesn't contradict Bruce, it's just useful associated info. Ciaran O'Riordan
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Open Source "State of the Union" address Posted Aug 12, 2003 7:03 UTC (Tue) by MLKahnt (guest, #6642) [Link] > Having the Unix source handed over to FSF would be sweet payback :)Before we get looking at that (I'd also thought of this in the early days of the SCOX suit,) we need to be sure that it is SCOX's copyright to lose - Novell's claims to still hold the copyright would probably preclude such a transfer, unless a court (probably a bankruptcy court, by that point) was to determine that Novell's IP rights were extinguished.
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