Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:42:04 -0700 | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted |
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Ion Badulescu wrote: > > In article <news2mail-39D93163.343E7A9B@innominate.de> Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > It is important that all technology used in GPL software be free of > > patent restrictions. > > Indeed. > > For another fine example of GPL technology covered by a parent, check out: > > http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US06049528__ > > This a patent filed by Sun in June 1997 and awarded in April 2000 which > covers very well the ethernet bonding device in Linux 2.2.x. > > I wonder if the equalizer device present in Linux kernels since before > 1996 could count as prior art. IANAL, of course. >
Or, even better, the fact that Ethernet bonding has been available as a Linux patch since about 1995..
I'm sure Donald Becker could produce prior art on that one!
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