On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:33:52PM +0100, Danny Tholen wrote:
> AFAIK it does not apply to patents, only trademark. Remember lzw/gif?

It applies to patents.  Unisys has never actually gone to court over
lzw.  Adobe and other big companies settled with undisclosed terms.  The
rest of the industry just quietly followed along.  So the LZW patent
hasn't ever really been challenged.

> Great PR stunt, would give mandrake some good press!

Yeah note all the publicity that Lindows has received after getting sued
for trademark infringement of Windows.  They are still around.
Microsoft is getting nowhere with their prosecution of the case.  And
now evertime mainstream (meaning not just computer publications) press
mentions Linux they mention Lindows.

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