A limited patent grant from Nokia [LWN.net]

A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 25, 2005 20:21 UTC (Wed) by bjlucier (subscriber, #5281)
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Perhaps this is an attempt to influence the upcoming vote of the European Parliament on the proposed Patent Directive.

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A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 25, 2005 21:00 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (2 responses)

That's certainly possible. It may also just be related to their recent Linux-based "Internet Tablet", as reported earlier on LWN.

http://lwn.net/Articles/137410/

Note that if they do try to assert their patents and restrict others from distributing Linux (or other GPL'd apps that happen to be found on their system), they might lose the rights to distribute this system.

A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 26, 2005 0:01 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] (1 responses)

It seems to me that it's about their Internet Tablet, given the timing.

A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 27, 2005 13:07 UTC (Fri) by lwner (guest, #30181) [Link]

Yes, it is. Take a look to http://www.maemo.org/ which uses http://www.scratchbox.org/ which especially supports http://www.debian.org/.

A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 26, 2005 12:01 UTC (Thu) by climent (guest, #7232) [Link] (1 responses)

Or perhaps not. Get all those conspiracy theories out of your heads.

A limited patent grant from Nokia

Posted May 26, 2005 14:20 UTC (Thu) by mjr (guest, #6979) [Link]

So what you're saying that after all the documented low-down dirty tactics that have been exhibited by several parties, including Nokia, to pursue EU software patents already, we should just suddenly assume that now they have only the best intentions in mind in leviating concerns over possible patent infringements in Linux with empty promises?

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.