Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

[Benjamin Franz]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, grumpy wrote:

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> It won't go anywhere because micro$ux would have to release their source code
> to prove infringement

You are thinking copyright. If there is a _patent_ violation all they 
would need to do is point to the patent - they are public documents (they 
have to be, with a few specific exceptions such as where the government 
can premptively classify a patent for national security reasons).

They don't even have to be using the patent for anything. They most 
certainly would not have to release any source code.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

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