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Story: Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 1 March 2005, 9:29 PM)
Actually, Mr. Malcom ought to read some of the current US court documents coming out of the SCO vs IBM case, in which the presiding judge says that SCO has thus far shown _no_ evidence of any code taken from Unix or System V has ended up in the Linux kernel. This seems to make it very unlikely that any version of Linux is in violation of any patents. IBM is unlikely to be spending billions of dollars and employing "...7000 to 8000 people working on [their] Linux strategy"
I think Mr. Malcolm _hopes_ that there is a patent violation, since he is supposedly a patent lawyer.
Job Security, I guess.
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