Libor Michalek wrote:
OK. Well I would rather make something generic. Besides, wasn't there some MS patent issue? The last thread on the subject that I read kinda made it sound like you were going to look into the issue and respond. Maybe I missed the response; there's a lot of mail in the archives for this list.
Sorry, I discussed it at the openib.org workshop. The short answer is
that after going through the code we didn't feel that the license was
necessary. The question is whether there is any code which relies on MS patents, aside from trying to prove a negative, it does not appear to
be the case.
Cool. I tried to find this supposed patent or patent application but couldn't. If you happen to know what number it is I would be interesting to read it also. It never found someone post the actual number in the archives.
In any case, I'd rather just make something more generic that perhaps can be used with NBD.
I wasn't trying to discourage you, just let you know what existing code is doing, either as a solution, or as an example.
I'll take a look at it then. I guess I figured if I was going to end up looking at some patent infected mindset/solution then I might as well go about trying to do what I'm trying to do and maybe it will be a novel approach or based of some other older idea that isn't patented. Yes, I hate software patents that much.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up. Jeff _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
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