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Naw .... Never happen ..

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"There are problems with either approach. Any shakedown would go to court, because it?s a guarantee not all Red Hat customers will go along. And the Eolas patent covers embed technology used on Web pages, which is not part of the Linux operating system. (Besides, the U.S. Patent Office is considering invalidating it based on prior art."

I would LOVE to see that, the USPO invalidating things.

I read a PATENT application by Microsoft of fairly recent vintage. It stated (I do not remember which one, so do not ask) That it was a patent to be able to control screen display / graphics by sending special sequence of characters to COMMAND the display to do display and rendering (Paraphrased Version).

WTF? Common, things have gotten out of hand with patents and software.

Posted by: Linux_4u!   Posted on: 10/09/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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