Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:47:59 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Open hardware wireless cards |
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:09:29PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:14:34PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > If we can't come up with our own project to work on open hardware we can > > > also just see if its feasible to purchase hardware companies on the > > > verge of going backrupt and buy them out and release the specs/etc (a la > > > blender). Can someone do the math here? I'm lazy. > > > > Being open doesn't mean you aren't violating some stupid patent. > > Only in some countries. We can ignore those countries.
Patents on hardware are legal and common in _many_ countries including all countries in the EU.
cu Adrian
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