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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:38:31 GMT
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- In article <1hbllvINNfj5@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
- >There is an active patent infringement lawsuit against Novell claiming
- >that Novell NetWare infringes this client-server patent. According to
- >what I've read, the patent's claims are _very_ broad, and some legal
- >experts think that if this goes to trial, the patent holder (an
- >independent engineer, _not_ another corporate behemouth) may well win.
-
- a) Does anybody have more info on this?
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- b) If this is really as described, maybe it would be A Good Thing if this
- independent engineer won such a suit... it could well mean that that
- corporate America would start to rethink the value of software patents
- if such a thing happened, no?
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