A patent is for a Device, Method, Process or composition of matter. So, the infringing stuff may not be lines of code ("device"), it could be a method or process. Perhaps the method or process is intrinsic to the whole work of the Mono/C# product.

At 01:49 PM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:49:39PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Because the FUD is more valuable.

Surely

> See, if they point at say, "That's ours." it will disappear.  And they
> know it.

> Novell was almost certainly infringing on Microsoft patents because of
> Mono/C#.  Novell has denied that there were *Linux* problems.

Why can't Novell just remove the tainted Mono/C# code then and move on?
Surely everytime someone accidentally infringes on a software patent they
don't deserve an RPG heading their way?

Chris


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