From: Graeme Sheppard <nodes@rillion.net>
To: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:26:56 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46804130.9010905@rillion.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706251503510.5117@blackbox.fnordora.org>
alan wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Graeme Sheppard wrote:
>
>> Dear devs,
>>
>> In a moment of serendipity I thought of a concept which may be advantageous
>> if incorporated into the kernel. I was going to offer it to the OIN but
>> they responded they only consider existing patents and I don't have the
>> money to afford one.
>
> How do you know it is a new idea?
The essence of the idea is simple enough that I would have heard of it.
It isn't an arcane programming trick buried deep in code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 21:45 Patent or not patent a new idea Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-25 22:04 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:26 ` Graeme Sheppard [this message]
2007-06-25 22:33 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:34 ` Attila Kinali
2007-06-25 22:37 ` manningc2
2007-06-26 0:11 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 1:32 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 2:20 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 3:20 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 3:38 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 4:22 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 4:33 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 16:53 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 17:38 ` Andreas Dilger
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