Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Lingard
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:04, James Bruce wrote: > I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that "Linux > violates more than 283 patents". Regardless of the truth to that study, The study said that it may violate patents; but that those patents may not be enforceable due

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread James Bruce
I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that "Linux violates more than 283 patents". Regardless of the truth to that study, this is IBM's way of stating that the 60 that they hold will not be used against Linux or other open source projects. Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:37 +0100, Bernhard Schauer wrote: > > And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. > > Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal > > if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the > > European

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
> And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. > Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal > if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the > European Patent Convention (see Â52(2) for details). Hopefully nothing will

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernhard Schauer
And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the European Patent Convention (see 52(2) for details). Hopefully nothing will change

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:37 +0100, Bernhard Schauer wrote: And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art. Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the European Patent

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread James Bruce
I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that Linux violates more than 283 patents. Regardless of the truth to that study, this is IBM's way of stating that the 60 that they hold will not be used against Linux or other open source projects. Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon,

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Lingard
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:04, James Bruce wrote: I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that Linux violates more than 283 patents. Regardless of the truth to that study, The study said that it may violate patents; but that those patents may not be enforceable due to

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-17 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:44 -0500, linux-os wrote: > Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005 > > IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about No, they only promise now to not sue anyone given the following criteria. No one knows what happens in 5 years. > 500 of its existing software

IBM Patents

2005-01-17 Thread linux-os
Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005 IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about 500 of its existing software patents to users and groups working on open source software. http://www.ibm.com/news/us/ Many of these patents relate to interoperability, communications, file-export

IBM Patents

2005-01-17 Thread linux-os
Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005 IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about 500 of its existing software patents to users and groups working on open source software. http://www.ibm.com/news/us/ Many of these patents relate to interoperability, communications, file-export

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-17 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:44 -0500, linux-os wrote: Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005 IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about No, they only promise now to not sue anyone given the following criteria. No one knows what happens in 5 years. 500 of its existing software patents to