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Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Posted Dec 9, 2003 20:43 UTC (Tue) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
In reply to: Some links for those who didn't see the patents by proski
Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

The first of those patents was granted November 26, 1996, years after UMSDOS was implemented in Linux.

The important date for prior art, as I understand it (IANAL), is the patent application date, not the date it's granted.


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