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Um... rbethell...
You do realize that the OSS community is negotiating their own license with Eolas, which is liable to be quite different from the Microsoft one. I don't want to speculate, but considering that Eolas is a one-man company, and that one man is a contributor to Tcl (an open sourced language) could we not infer that any license for the patent he passes to the community may be OSS-friendly?
Posted by: John Le'Brecage   Posted on: 01/15/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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bad...  ryusen | 01/14/04
Patents, copyrights take time  markgros@... | 01/14/04
1994  voska | 01/15/04
1994  d_jedi | 01/15/04
changed?  doh123 | 01/15/04
forced to get it ?  dodonfred | 01/16/04
assuming yo're right,  ryusen | 01/15/04
I agree  JWatson77 | 01/15/04
2 Years From When?  Digger_z | 01/15/04
Two years from the notice  AbsolutelyNot | 01/15/04
But I thought MS had a great respect for IP;-)  Richard Flude | 01/14/04
level playing field?  stephen732@... | 01/14/04
Um... puma?  rbethell | 01/15/04
Um... rbethell...  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Umm...John Le'Brecage...  billywill | 01/15/04
um... billywill  stephen732@... | 01/15/04
um... puma  billywill | 01/15/04
Uhmm, possible solution  Update victim | 01/15/04
Better Solution  middle of nowhere | 01/15/04
uhh..  d_jedi | 01/15/04
(NT) No, they are enforcing a government granted monopoly.  Update victim | 01/15/04
Not true  billywill | 01/15/04
what fair trade laws?  ryusen | 01/15/04
Antitrust? Are you daft?  WizWom_z | 01/15/04
(NT) Only that which they have assimilated.  Update victim | 01/15/04
open source  ryusen | 01/15/04
Total miscarriage of justice..  Mike Cox | 01/14/04
I agree!  GraysonPeddie | 01/14/04
Um, Grayson....  BitTwiddler | 01/15/04
SHssssss!  Nullifidian | 01/15/04
Even Microsoft is hinting that the patent was valid  AbsolutelyNot | 01/15/04
not necessarily  ryusen | 01/15/04
Mike Cox (a.k.a Iraqi Baghdad Bob?)  wploger | 01/15/04
No, No..Mike Cox IS Grayson  shawkins | 01/16/04
RE: Total miscarriage of justice  arpnet | 01/15/04
MS, stop whining.  NoB$ | 01/14/04
MS and Spyglass  richhayes | 01/15/04
maybe the patent office needs to be fined?  JWatson77 | 01/15/04
Minimal payments, reverse engineering  AbsolutelyNot | 01/15/04
spyglass  richhayes | 01/15/04
how?  ryusen | 01/15/04
Spyglass  richhayes | 01/15/04
Spyglass/Microsoft Settlement  Pebkac Charlie | 01/15/04
morality  ryusen | 01/15/04
question  JoeMama_z | 01/15/04
exactly  ryusen | 01/15/04
IP  lotta_anger | 01/15/04
Patents protect only major corps?  vferrara | 01/15/04
From what I understand ...  coffeenite | 01/15/04
Now that's a statement I can agree with  vferrara | 01/15/04
Apologies for my spelling  vferrara | 01/15/04
Lawyers fight to keep the money making problems  voska | 01/15/04
US IP is from the horse-and-buggy era  Frank MacCrory | 01/15/04
OLE2 should count as prior art  rbethell | 01/15/04
Message has been deleted.  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Message has been deleted.  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Two deletes?  AbsolutelyNot | 01/15/04
I giggle Diva, Sir  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
I asked  JWatson77 | 01/15/04
Meanwhile, Eolas negotiates with the OSS/Linux community.  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Well, Actually John  Don Bradley | 01/15/04
Well, Actually Don  George Mitchell | 01/15/04
Well, Actually George  Don Bradley | 01/15/04
One of us doesn't understand the Ebolas patent  George Mitchell | 01/15/04
one question.  ryusen | 01/15/04
Patent GPL?  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
You underestimate the laziness of the capitalist, and the developer, Don...  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Bug report: Software patents broken, fix pls  Nigel Johnstone | 01/15/04
That cuts both ways, and I like it.  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Spec vs. Implementation  WizWom_z | 01/15/04
You're correct!  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
True, but...  John L. Ries | 01/15/04
Nigel, I like it.  Update victim | 01/15/04
Actually, you DONT have to provide a working model  wolf_z | 01/15/04
S'truth, sir.(wtih modification)  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
ummm to all  ickusslime@... | 01/15/04
Brilliant!  KTLA | 01/15/04
Judge Ruling  alicia@... | 01/15/04
Because Alicia...  John Le'Brecage | 01/15/04
Guess the prior art was convincing enough  FilledOut | 01/15/04
Prior art priority  SublimeDaze | 01/15/04
Woops on the prior post  FilledOut | 01/15/04
Now, could MS settle with Eolas and still  FilledOut | 01/15/04
Microsoft Stuff probably ''is''prior art  ParadigmOdyssey | 01/15/04
This is stoopid  chromedome | 01/16/04
Kalahari  d.jarrell@... | 01/16/04
Well IBM is the largest patent holder, so  FilledOut | 01/17/04

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