Re: Tux 2 patents

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 21:04:45 EDT

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    > The main goal is to encourage NetApp management to do the right thing.

    They are required to run the business in a profit seeking manner.
    I think they can even go to jail... so "do the right thing" is not
    an option for them.

    You can trade patent licenses for other patent licenses.
    You can trade a patent license for code or secrets.

    Say, would Tux2 be useful on a DVD-RAM? Gee, can you think of
    any other patent-holders and secret-holders that might have a
    use for Tux2? Apple has some influence over video patents
    used in QuickTime.

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