Am 2005-06-06 10:11:22, schrieb John Hasler: > You don't need any money and you don't need to sue Microsoft. If you have > proof of prior art for a software patent please contact one of the many > organizations fighting such patents, such as the Free Software Foundation > <http://www.gnu.org>. Several US software patents have been overturned > recently when prior art was discovered by software patent opponents.
Hmmm, should I conntact them to make troble with M$ and friends ? > BTW I assume that by "under a PD" you mean released into the public domain? > It is not possible for a work to be both "public domain" and "educational > use only". In the USA but in Germany... > Do you mean that Microsoft has patented an invention that was published in > the referenced work, or that they are infringing the copyright? The copyright, because for commercial use, interested people/enterrises had should contact me for a licence. And I think, M$ and Friends have stolen much more sources as publicated and nobody can enforce her/his right, because it is Closed Source Software where you do not know anything about it. :-( See SCO! I have found source code of SCO in Linux and Linux code in SCO, BUT it is OpenSCO and this part was GPLed. I have the OpenSCO CD's at home, and I know what I am talking about. But SCO tell us, there is stolen Source-Code! The Judges in the USA have never seen the SCO-Source in original and now ? I am using ONLY "main" from Debian and all new software of me is GPL. Never I will go back to prprietary software. I am using Debian GNU/Linux sind 03/1999 and I will use it for the rest of my life. Thanks to all Developpers and Contributors (I am helping discretly some Upstreams, DD and DM and I will continue) for developing this GREAT and FREE Operating System. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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