From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261825AbTDXVJT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:09:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263479AbTDXVJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:09:18 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:31136 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261825AbTDXVJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:09:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA85937.3050109@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:37:59 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lokier CC: Daniel Phillips , William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! References: <20030424051510.GK8931@holomorphy.com> <20030424061500.GN8978@holomorphy.com> <20030424074400.GD28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030424185708.0D34912E79E@mx12.arcor-online.net> <20030424210846.GG30082@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >Suppose I did want to print some wafers. > >Suppose, also, that I had developed a method that didn't require a >$10M+ factory. > >(Also suppose I had _very_ steady hands, no dandruff, and my garden >shed was big enough :) > >I'm curious - how do I go about learning what I do and don't need >patent licenses for making chips, without spending an absurd sum on >legal fees? > We could always consider wiring everything up with discrete logic. Anyone got any spare 74138's?