Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers) | Date | Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:23:53 -0300 | From | "Horst H. von Brand" <> |
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Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:
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> I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed > price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an > infringement on a list of given patents" so the patent holder has to > list the patents and the amount of my time to invest (and then he will > get a price for it and no guarantees of success).
And them you'd have to testify (as an expert witness, AFAIU). Having legally demostrable expertise in the area isn't easy, I suppose. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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