VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds
VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds
Posted Jun 30, 2009 23:01 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds by jzbiciak
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the scheduler forevermore. How are we going to discuss LFN issues of any
sort in VFAT in the open from now on? As far as I can tell, we pretty much
can't.
(A more significant reason why nobody reads patents is because they're
written in such an appallingly unreadable turgid style that by the time
you've figured out what they're talking about, you could have come up with
the idea yourself in 99.9999...% of cases. This in itself is an indictment
of patent quality... a patent library that nobody consults is entirely
worthless --- except as a weapon to use against the public. But you knew
that.)
Posted Jul 8, 2009 11:17 UTC (Wed)
by fergal (guest, #602)
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You can discuss almost everything. Just don't publicly say "hey I don't think this does work around the patent because ...". If you think you've found a flaw in the legal reasoning, send a private email. You probably also shouldn't send a patch for purely legal reasons and discuss them in public. That leaves everyone who is likely to do any work on LFN reasonably free to do it and discuss it in public.
Posted Jul 8, 2009 18:16 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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I wonder what can't-discuss-it code will be going in for the Chinese
VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds
I don't see how it wouldn't crimp our style discussing anything to do with
the scheduler forevermore. How are we going to discuss LFN issues of any
sort in VFAT in the open from now on? As far as I can tell, we pretty much
can't.
VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds
this patch: $PERSON will send you a private email explaining the design"
(and then he apparently doesn't, at least not yet) which means that if
this patch goes in we have opaque design decisions in the kernel for the
sake of a single (large) country's appalling legal regime. Great stuff.
government next? They're hot on Linux and China has a much bigger
population than the US.