In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/07/2007
at 12:37 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Some instructions on the zSeries are patent protected. That means
>that writing any code or making any hardware which has an identical
>effect, regardless of how it is done, can only be legally done if the
>person/company doing the emulation has a patent license.
Or if they succeed in invalidating the patent.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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