> B) There are actually manufacturers who would be happy with your straw man. > Lots of companies in the far east produce products that infringe on patents > from 30 different competitors, and rather than try to license everything > (which isn't even always possible) they spin off a shell company (or nested > series thereof), design and manufacture a product, sell a production run of > them into the distribution channel, and then dissolve the shell company > before the inventory hits retailers. But the time anybody is in a position
This isn't just done for IPR, in fact in many fields IPR is a non-issue. The primary reason for this practice is to render US health and safety regulation irrelevant and to prevent class action suits if/when your device kills someone. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
