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SubjectRe: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout
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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:18, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:45, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> > RCU - originally a paper, implemented in Dynix and in other operating
> > systems from the paper (and patent), implemented in Linux as well.
>
> You could also make a strong argument that that patent is invalid
> because RCU is obvious.

(replying to myself to avert flames) OK, after reading the RCU docs, in
all fairness there is a lot more to it than I described, in particular
the database analogy is not quite valid because most of the hard parts
are handled automagically by the DB. But, my point remains valid, RCU
seems like too general a concept to be patentable, and would probably be
obvious to many people on this list.

Lee


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