Re: Patent

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:11:24 +0000 (GMT)

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> On 03-Nov-99 Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Almost all Linux kernels today are infringing on US patent #5,806,063
> >
> > No. The Linux code predates it.
>
> That's beside the fact that the patent is explicitly for database storage and
> sorting not for data representation in general.

Unless you are a qualified US patent lawyer you are (in the eyes of the US
legal system) not qualified to judge that and a court would reject any statement
of that nature from a mere programmer ....

Fun isnt it.

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