Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 18:45:34 UTC 2007


Alan Cox wrote:
>> Which still leaves open the question of how many times you have to pay 
>> to license the same patent for the same device, or whether you can 
> 
> Typically each time you buy a device indirectly (and you also pay
> indirectly for the patent office through taxes, the cost of patent
> lawsuits through product prices, insurance against patent lawsuits
> again through product prices) etc.
> 
>> rearrange the bits in one licensed program?
> 
> Don't know. Ask a patent lawyer

Lawyers sometimes win, sometimes lose when their opinions are tested in 
court.  How would I know I'm asking the one that would win?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com






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