Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:31:15AM -0700: > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 12:52 am, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > > > Time to look closer at BSD and Minix, I guess. > > > > That would make sense until you realize that every big piece of software > > violates someones patent. > > So I go back a few years. Software that was delivered *before* a patent > cannot be subject to a patent, as it is its own prior art.
I believe that the time frame a >1yr to be considered Prior Art. That Prior Art also nullifies the patent. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
