Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Open hardware wireless cards | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:28:23 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:59 +0100, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 21:47, you wrote: > > 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: [...] > > > > Being open doesn't mean you aren't violating some stupid patent. > > > > > > Only in some countries. We can ignore those countries.
Hardly. (Almost) all of the western world is included (and probably most of the rest).
> > Patents on hardware are legal and common in _many_ countries including > > all countries in the EU.
In general yes.
> There are several independent designs in the market for these chipsets, but as > far as I know the patents only govern the complete chipset, thus the contents > of the chipset is not to be worried about. > The other patent issue is the 802.11 standard itself. Is that patent free? > (IE: That would be a stupid patent)
You know how many "stupid" patents out there? An yes, they are granted and they (actually their holders) wait until they are legal.
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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