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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20101211/8a9496b6/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20101211/8a9496b6/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..98c1c51db --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20101211/8a9496b6/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:07 AM, andre999 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andr55@laposte.net">andr55@laposte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +Don't forget, virtually all software, in some respect, can be considered subject to patent claims.<br> +Microsoft has a patent on some charactistic necessarily used by all spreadsheets. Including Visicalc, which predates anything Microsoft produced.<br> +(I forget the details, something ridiculously simple.)<br> +It is obviously unenforceable; no court would endorse it.<br> +<br> +The Linux kernel is supposedly subject to many patents.<br> +So if you want to avoid all potential software patent claims, you should probably avoid Linux.<br> +<br></blockquote></div><br>If every developer on this world who writes open source software would care about such patents, than nobody would be able to program because you have to fear that a big company like Microsoft will have a patent on some part of code. But as you mentioned in previous posts, only such people with lots of money will have problems.<br> +<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mit freundlichen Grüßen<br><br>Greetings<br><br>Daniel Kreuter<br><br><br><br> |