From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OSDL Patent Commons for Linux
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:05:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e590511161905k49ca023fs3a28b613e6a294d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437BA9AA.6000208@wolfmountaingroup.com>
On 11/16/05, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> Someone needs ping Novell about patent 6,728,959 for SMP Strong
> Affinity and get it added to the patent commons project at OSDL. It
> will help defeat any claims brought by that certain Lindon Utah company
> owning SMP in Linux. I noticed Novell has signed up but not placed any
> patents into the project. Just thought I'd remind folks. Linux uses
> strong affinity in much of its architecture. Having that patent in the
> commons will remove any claims that Linux SMP infringes Unix.
Interesting. We're researching a piece on "Patent Commons" at the
moment (linuxuser.co.uk) so I'll pass that along.
Jon.
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2005-11-16 21:50 Jeffrey V. Merkey
2005-11-17 3:05 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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