Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:46:58 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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Abhay wrote:
> Chaitin's reg-alloc algorithm (graph coloring) is patented by IBM 1982 > search IBM's patent server ...
Well, if that lasts 17 years, it's a real-soon-now thing. :-)
On a related note, how could RSA possibly still be patented? It's in my old maths history book as 'the MIT encryption algorithm' developed in the 60s or 70s, even that book must be around 10-20 years old. Or is something which makes implementing RSA efficiently possible patented, or the idea of actually using it on a computer (instead of to "encrypt" large numbers :-)?
David.
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