Pantent infingments?

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

I thought there was something about the right to make other systems
interoperable that would not cause an infringement?  Like putting
Appletalk protocol in Linux.  If the original company doesn't create a
tool to allow you to tranfer information in/out using your existing
systems, then of course you want to make your own.

But what do I know, I'm barely awake. 


Brian Kelsay

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Pruente
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:37 PM


On 5/15/07, Arthur Pemberton  wrote:
> In all fairness, not all patents can be coded around of.

True, and I'll venture a guess that most of the patents involved would
tie into NTFS support and/or Samba, or even Mono.  If that's true,
simple removing those packages from a distro might free up a lot of
threats.

Jon.