On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:07 AM, andre999 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don't forget, virtually all software, in some respect, can be considered > subject to patent claims. > Microsoft has a patent on some charactistic necessarily used by all > spreadsheets. Including Visicalc, which predates anything Microsoft > produced. > (I forget the details, something ridiculously simple.) > It is obviously unenforceable; no court would endorse it. > > The Linux kernel is supposedly subject to many patents. > So if you want to avoid all potential software patent claims, you should > probably avoid Linux. > > If every developer on this world who writes open source software would care about such patents, than nobody would be able to program because you have to fear that a big company like Microsoft will have a patent on some part of code. But as you mentioned in previous posts, only such people with lots of money will have problems. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Greetings Daniel Kreuter
