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Open Source "State of the Union" addressOpen Source "State of the Union" addressPosted Aug 7, 2003 19:09 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Open Source "State of the Union" address by josh_stern Parent article: Open Source "State of the Union" address
> various hardware drivers and the larger range I've haven't yet heard of a patent infringement within a driver. The patent infringments of Linux that I've heard about are in the virtual memory and filesystem code. Not so easy to break out. Anyway, it's the distros that will get targeted, they'd still have to include all the drivers. Ciaran O'Riordan
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Open Source "State of the Union" address Posted Aug 7, 2003 20:37 UTC (Thu) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link] In the case of SCO, they are specifically targeting the Linux kernel asan integrated product. I'm afraid that Bruce may prove prophetic when his says that we have only heard the very beginning of the patent wars. Of course stuff like virtual memory is not something to be broken out, but because device drivers interact with a huge assortment of different 'stuff' out there in the world, I believe there is more potential for them to touch a wide range of patents - especially ones that are not familiar to software developers. Suppose, for instance, it turned out that some obscure individual had a patent on a certain method of scheduling and driving ham radios using a computer device, and he decided that Linux infringes on his method. In that case, it would be a good thing if rich Linux targ^H^H^H^Husers with no ham radio driver involvement had prima facie nothing to do with his claim.
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