[ILUG] Nasty patent lawsuit

[Owen Brady]

How can you justify patents for certain methods of operation? If the
patent crusade gets out of hand, where will it end? What next, patents
applied to the JMP instruction? No Mr programmer, you may not change
the address of the instruction pointer without paying royalties to
Intel.

On 4/23/11, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. <kingsley at loaner.com> wrote:
> Hi Braun,
>
> I'm also interested in the story and do not work
> at Google, so I'm freer to comment on it.
>
> A web site whose motto is "News for Nerds, stuff
> that matters" (slashdot.org), published a variety
> of comments from people who are computer literate.
>
> You can read them at
>
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/21/2140249/Google-Loses-Bedrock-Suit-All-Linux-May-Infringe
>
> My executive summary is:
>
>     Patent troll overlooks prior art to win in a
>     redneck lower court, where, as Einstein put
>     it, everyone is relative.
>
> Thanks,
> Kingsley
>
> On 04/22/11 14:00, Braun Brelin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just came across this story...
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20056192-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>>
>> Anybody at Google want to comment?
>>
>> Braun
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