"J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrob: > On Tue, 2 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Microsoft was recently granted a patent that covers a core > > part of Debian, and probably Red Hat too. (If you have [...] > I've followed a course on patents at our Univ, and learned that formulation is > EXTREMELY important. And M$ happily formulated things in such a way that > Debian and RH are not affected. [...]
But even if Debian is unaffected by this the question remains whether the patent remains valid, doesn't it? At least to me (and I'm as far from being a lawyer as one could possibly be) the Debian-way looks clearly like prior art. I'd really appreciate some enlightenment from people who know more about such things than I do! Greetings, Lars
