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    <B>Daniel Kreuter</B> 
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    <I>Sat Dec 11 07:30:06 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:07 AM, andre999 &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">andr55 at laposte.net</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> Don't forget, virtually all software, in some respect, can be considered
</I>&gt;<i> subject to patent claims.
</I>&gt;<i> Microsoft has a patent on some charactistic necessarily used by all
</I>&gt;<i> spreadsheets.  Including Visicalc, which predates anything Microsoft
</I>&gt;<i> produced.
</I>&gt;<i> (I forget the details, something ridiculously simple.)
</I>&gt;<i> It is obviously unenforceable; no court would endorse it.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> The Linux kernel is supposedly subject to many patents.
</I>&gt;<i> So if you want to avoid all potential software patent claims, you should
</I>&gt;<i> probably avoid Linux.
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</I>&gt;<i>
</I>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.


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Mit freundlichen Gr&#252;&#223;en

Greetings

Daniel Kreuter
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