On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:53, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > Gabucino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There is a significant part to these patent enforcement stories: they all > > happen on Win32 platform. Microsoft has never enforced media patents on > > Linux > > market, as far as I know. > > That's irrelevant if they actually own the patent: the goal is not to > avoid getting sued, it's to avoid breaking the law.
So far as I know, it is not illegal to infringe on somebody else's patents. AIUI patent holders can enforce (or not) their patents at will by suing, but doing so is their perogative and no law makes it wrong for someone to infringe on a patent which isn't being enforced. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net
