If you wrote it yourself and can prove that the IBM
product did not affect your coding then you are not
infringing on the patent......UNLESS they patented the
idea (in which case they are just asking to be
sued!!).
Drew Northup, N1XIM
--- Jong Hyuk Choi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello...
>
> My name is John (Jong Hyuk) Choi.
> I wanted to participate in the development of
> freemware
> from the start, but lots of assignments at my job
> have prevented me to
> do so.
>
> Recently, I realized that the virtual machine
> approach may be an
> overkill
> for most of us - who want to promptly switch
> multiple operating systems
> back and forth,
> but not necessarily run those multiple operating
> systems at the same
> time.
>
> So, I came to the idea of multiple hibernation....
> - providing multiple storage locations for saving
> memory and system
> image
> and multiple hibernation key combinations for
> switching among them...
>
> Unfortunately ... :), however,
> soon I found that this is a patented asset of IBM
> corp.
>
> Have somebody seen any computer products that have
> this functionality ?
> Otherwise, are there any technical huddles and
> difficulties against
> an efficient and plausible implementation ?
> I haven't investigate the IBM patent yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> John (Jong Hyuk) Choi
>
> --
> Jong Hyuk Choi, Ph.D
>
> LG CIT, System IC Center
> 16 Woomyeon-Dong Seocho-Gu
> Seoul 137-724 Korea
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://mywww.lgcit.com/~choix
>
> +82-2-526-4249
> +82-2-575-5104
>
>
>
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