On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:19:24AM -0600, Jerry Epplin wrote:
> What are we to make of Victor's software patent "Adding
> real-time support to general purpose operating systems"
> (US patent no. 5995745)? This patent appears to cover
> the basic principles behind RTL; including running a
> non-real-time OS as one task of an RTOS, and preventing
> the non-real-time OS from disabling preemption by the
> RTOS.
As I understand patent law a patent can only cover things
which have not already been published. I agree it would be
important to know what is exactly covered by the patent
and *when* the the patent was filed.
Kai
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