> This problem is related to > the boring world of business and IP patents. I like patents, but lately I > wonder...
This is fairly off-topic for this list, but: It's basically impossible to write any significant program these days without infringing on dozens or hundreds of patents. The standard legal advice to software startups is to not read any patents, in order to avoid willful infringement. *If* you get sued, then it's worth looking at the patent in question to see if you can work around it. You can see this process in action in Linux with the argument over workarounds for the "long names in FAT filesystems" patent. The area you're apparenetly interested in, virtual worlds, likely has a zillion patents with a lot of overlap. The situation is the same for things like distributed filesystems, compilers, and perhaps MPI. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
