On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:00:58PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Ori Idan wrote: > > >> > >>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 > >> > >> > > >> > >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". > > Guess again. The owner of the rights to this patent is the Microsoft corp. > > >This is another good example that there is no way to avoid violating > >patents in software. > > It is worth noting that to my understanding, this patent is one of the > now famous "238 patents that Linux violates". >
Huh ? Does the kernel contain any code written in BASIC (claim 20) or that requires a BASIC-derived compiler (claim 2)? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
