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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.

  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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