On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:26:20 +0000, Simon Jenkins wrote: > The big boys might fight amongst themselves about this stuff at the > moment, but if free software ever starts to seriously threaten them > they could very quickly forget their differences, gang up, and start > licensing the patents to/from each other.
I guess if that happened then it would be time to petition the OSS community and the FSF and try to mount some sort of defense as that would set a nasty precident. I think the FSF was trying to do something similar in the DeCSS case but that eneded up going nowhere for them and so they dropped it. > Does a patent get stronger if you're actually earning money from it? I don't think so.. I think it takes actual review or court action. At least there is nothing in the history docs I have about any royalities. -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 479.846.5777 x104 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
