Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Tux 2 patents | Date | Fri, 06 Oct 2000 21:46:37 +0200 |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > > > And you only get the year of protection **IF** you have filed a > > > provisional patent application, which expires 12 months after it's > > > issued. You must then file a non-provisional patent application before > > > the year runs out, or you cannot patent the techniques. > > > > IOW, there is *no chance* to get a white-hat patent on anything I've > > There is no such thing as white-hat patent.
Flow with me on this, there is: it's a patent that helps destroy the patent system. If BSD gets hurt then we have to fix it somehow.
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