Yup, we have the prior art thing here too (guess who we got the idea from...yep, England). That doesn't mean that the Patent Ofiice bothers to check anymore (or even knows what to look for). Last I checked, however, there were no patents on virtualization. If it makes people feel any better, that at least isn't likely to be patented since it has been written about since roughly the time of Babbage(Ada Lovelace, if I recall correctly.....)--and Big Blue (otherwise known as the Itty-Bitty-Machine company) isn't about to let anybody forget that.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ged Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Drew Northup wrote: > > > problem is if somebody decides to get a patent for what we are doing > > Over here in the UK we call that "Prior Art" and it invalidates a patent. > I'd have thought the same applied in the USA? > > Of course over here you can't patent software anyway. > > 73, > Ged. > > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ __/ __/
