Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)

Alan Cox
2002-08-12T09:07:57Z

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 02:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ask your legal counsel, and I strongly suspect that if he is any good, he
> will tell you the same thing. Namely that it's _his_ problem, and that
> your engineers should not waste their time trying to find existing
> patents.

Wasn't a case of wasting time. That one is extremely well known because
there were upset people when SGI patented it and then submitted a usenix
paper on it.