Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
Jerry
jerry at seibercom.net
Mon Aug 6 18:38:02 UTC 2012
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:37:17 +0100
Steve O'Hara-Smith articulated:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400
> Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
>
> > Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You
> > can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well
> > no one interested in monetary compensation would patient anything
> > unless they were:
> >
> > ⁽¹⁾ Intended to use the patents in such a way that they would
> > directly profit from it
> >
> > ⁽²⁾ Intended to lease the patent rights or outright sell the patent.
>
> [3] Want to prevent anyone else from using it to break into their
> market.
That would be inclusive in my 1st. reason I listed.
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