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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Novell just bought Unix?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725224217snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <1992Dec24.203040.18122@primerd.prime.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 19:10:17 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
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- In article <1992Dec24.203040.18122@primerd.prime.com> jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain writes:
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- In article <BzrvK9.7xv@mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- |> 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?
- |>
- |> 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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- I don't think so. We can't praise one person for the same thing which
- we condemn whole corporations.
-
- Nonono. He's saying that corporate America might start perceiving
- software patents as a Bad Thing if they lost a few millions in
- royalties. But can good come of evil?
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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