Hi, wieder 'ne Nachricht vom Großen Bruder. Geht in eine ähnliche Richtung wie Jens' Mail von Freitag (s. Subject). Vielleicht kann ja jemand helfen.
> > noch so eine mistige Entwicklung. Bitte beachten, das ist kein SPAM, > sondern ein Aufruf. > > Die EU will Gesetze für Softwarepatente legalisieren. Das bedeutet, daß > Sachen wie > [snip] ========================= To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Help: Microsoft patent covers package download and upgrade Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:04:32 +0300 Hi all, Microsoft was recently granted a patent that covers a core part of Debian, and probably Red Hat too. (If you have contacts in RH you can forward this, their contact page seemed a bit slow in retrieval.) (If you forward this to public place, any other than debian-doc and debian-legal, please drop my name and company from mail body and headers.) The project I'm working in has some interest in automatic SW upgrade, so I _might_ be able to persuade Nokia to take interest in this patent. To do it I need some historical data that shows that the invention was known art at that time. Below is some data on the patent and some historical data I dug out from Debian web site. It seems to show that some time between -95 and -97 dselect supported upgrading from internet. If 0.93R6 already did it I'd be happy. In any case I'd appreciate a man page or dselect-beginner.txt or something similar from first release supporting ftp access method, with release date. (If rpm did it before Nov 97 that would also be nice to know.) MS patent seems to be somewhat limited by not having any info on versions, dependencies, conflicts etc. but that is to be expected, I suppose. [signature omitted at author's request] =============================== Ciao Bernd ------------------------------------------------ Um sich aus der Liste auszutragen schicken Sie bitte eine E-Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] die im Body "unsubscribe debian-user-de <deine emailadresse>" enthaelt. Bei Problemen bitte eine Mail an: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------ Anzahl der eingetragenen Mitglieder: 722
