At 09:24 AM 11/18/2006 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 00:24:03 AM -0500, JJ Gitties >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> The sooner they fork SUSE the sooner they can get a head start on >> the project. For all the SUSE fans here, you should be happy of a >> fork. You will still have a SUSE. >> > >Forking is either useless or very, very expensive (effort wise) when >patents are involved. It only solves easily copyright and trademark >issues. > >E.g., to get Centos from RHEL you must, more or less, only strip and >replace all the occurrences of Red Hat strings, logos and similar from >the sources and recompile. A semi-automatic process. > >If Linux violates sw patents, to change ANY Linux distribution to >something patent-free you must first *find* all the places in the >source where violations occur and then, for each of them, figure out >and develop another _algorithm_ to do the same thing. Assuming another >way _exists_, of course. > >Ciao, > Marco
It would seem to be relatively simple to find patent violations: just wait until MS sues RedHat. Since they use the same Linux as anybody else, with just their own tweaks added, you would then know what code they think is infringing. OTOH, if they _don't_ sue Redhat, they probably wouldn't sue anybody else. (Nobody else has enough money or enough of the market to make it worthwhile.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
