Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
If I understand this patent it means all computer programs including Windows are actualy violating this patent since all programs I know must use some version of "if not".Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:23:11PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
Every time I read about the (recent ?) claim Ballmer makes about the possibility that Linux violates over 228 patents I wonder how many patents Windows might violate ? More importantly wonder how to demonstrate easily how such violations can take place.
Those are patents, not copyrights.
You can avoid violating copyrights if you're careful enough.
You can avoid violating patents if you try not to innovate.
You wish. Or does the "if not" operation an innovation in your book?
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959
Gilad
This is another good example that there is no way to avoid violating patents in software.
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Ori Idan
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