From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 10 14:43:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1969A4567 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA55257; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:43:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:43:15 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTLinux Patent In-Reply-To: <200002102138.OAA03354@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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