Re: Tux 2 patents

From: Daniel Phillips (news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 15:46:37 EDT

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    Alexander Viro wrote:
    >
    > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
    >
    > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
    > > >
    > > > And you only get the year of protection **IF** you have filed a
    > > > provisional patent application, which expires 12 months after it's
    > > > issued. You must then file a non-provisional patent application before
    > > > the year runs out, or you cannot patent the techniques.
    > >
    > > IOW, there is *no chance* to get a white-hat patent on anything I've
    >
    > There is no such thing as white-hat patent.

    Flow with me on this, there is: it's a patent that helps destroy the
    patent system. If BSD gets hurt then we have to fix it somehow. 

    --
Daniel
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