OSRM does a kernel patent review
In conclusion, he found that no court-validated software patent is infringed by the Linux kernel. However, Ravicher also found 283 issued but not yet court-validated software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially be used to support patent claims against Linux. In response, OSRM will be expanding its risk mitigation and insurance offerings to cover this quantifiable risk."
Posted Aug 2, 2004 17:49 UTC (Mon)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Does this review separate out those patents that have been explicitly licensed by their owners for use in GPL software? The IBM RCU patent, for example, falls into this category.
Posted Aug 2, 2004 20:17 UTC (Mon)
by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
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Posted Aug 2, 2004 22:20 UTC (Mon)
by lakeland (guest, #1157)
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OSRM does a kernel patent review
I don't like this kind of marketing. I feel it's a little like searching for security holes to market firewalls.
OSRM does a kernel patent review
Well, if you wanted to market firewalls, isn't that exactly how you'd do OSRM does a kernel patent review
it? After all, apart from the 'firewall manufactures', who else would
bother with the boring and costly patent search?