Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:43:15 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTLinux Patent Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000210163908.80722A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <200002102138.OAA03354@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > In case folks on the list haven't heard yet, one of the developers > of RTLinux claims to have *patented* a fairly generic (and > probably not original) scheme for placing a real time kernel > underneath a non-real-time OS. What's more outrageous still is Software patents in US are pretty silly -- regardless of what you think of them as a concept. Microsoft has a patent on what appears to be the semaphore. Someone received a patent for windowing of two digit years. There are any number of ridiculus software patents that fail the prior art challenge. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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