how patents work (was: licensing of CIFS standards)

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Apr 10 21:07:03 UTC 2002


Alessandro Rubini <rubini at gnu.org> wrote:
> But the point is that it's not about the implementation, only about
> the idea.  [...]

I thought a software patent was a patent on an algorithm, a process, ie an
implementation?

This is all moot for this list, because you can't enforce the here (yet).




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