Microsoft is using Phil Karn's Soloman Reed code in it's streaming/multimedia without checking with him for permission. They give thanks in the standard bsd style credit license, unfortunately he never released it under a BSD license. It's a submarine just waiting off the coast right now. :)
Lan Barnes wrote: > On Wed, November 29, 2006 8:49 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> Todd Walton wrote: >>> And why don't the chickensh*t MS roaches just come out and say, this >>> algorithm here is our property, please remove it? >> Because the FUD is more valuable. >> >> See, if they point at say, "That's ours." it will disappear. And they >> know it. >> >> However, if they can say "Linux has an unspecified liability." they can >> bully some downstream businesses. They can rattle the legal sabers and >> threaten combined with a big discount. If you're a medium-sized >> business, you'll just punt with Microsoft for a couple more years and >> let somebody else fight the battle. >> > > IANAL but I think Todd has a valid point. My understanding is that if you > have a patent and don't defend it vigorously against what you consider > infringement, then after a while you have said to the world that it is not > infringement (or defensible). > > So I'm a Red Hat patent shark, I mark this day and start a clock, and if > M$ _ever_ tries to sue, I put Dancing Boy on the stand and have him read > this back, and then ask, "so why didn't you do anything?" > -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, Ca. http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 Linux. The Internet's Operating System. http://www.linux.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
