From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 15:54:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 15:54:00 -0400 Received: from relay01.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.235]:18181 "EHLO relay01.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 15:53:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEFEB73.5BB2C14C@opersys.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 15:52:19 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, French/Canada, French/France, fr-FR, fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: Wolfgang Denk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] In-Reply-To: <20020525110208.A15969@work.bitmover.com> <20020525182617.D627E11972@denx.denx.de> <20020525114426.B15969@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > I've spoken with Victor about this topic a few times and while I will not > speak for him in specifics, I will say he's equally unthrilled with a lot > of what gones on. It's tiresome. Just a general observation. Your arguments are indeed the same. I've had the same discussion I've had with you with Victor many times. There is, however, some differences between your situations. I can rewrite a software that does similar things as yours and sell it or give it away using whichever license I like. I can't write a similar software to Victor's and sell it or give it away using whichever license I like. There's no need to reply and point out that that's what patents are all about. I can see that for myself. I'm just pointing out that your situation is not exactly the same as Victor's. Karim =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karim@opersys.com Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert ===================================================