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


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