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Re: [opensuse-project] Update on the Microsoft deal - Letter to the Community by Novell
- From: Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:38:13 +0000
- Message-id: <200611212138.13500.kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:41, Saill White wrote:
> At last count, Microsoft has 5834 US patents, Novell has 279.
I see you go for quantity rather than quality ... Suppose, for instance, that
Microsoft's patents are less far-reaching, or more likely to be
challengeable? (This is not at all impossible - they have applied for a
patent on a verb conjugator, for instance, when there is significant prior
art, including the web-app I did for Welsh last year).
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Pob hwyl / Best wishes
Kevin Donnelly
www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg
www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg
www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD
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> At last count, Microsoft has 5834 US patents, Novell has 279.
I see you go for quantity rather than quality ... Suppose, for instance, that
Microsoft's patents are less far-reaching, or more likely to be
challengeable? (This is not at all impossible - they have applied for a
patent on a verb conjugator, for instance, when there is significant prior
art, including the web-app I did for Welsh last year).
--
Pob hwyl / Best wishes
Kevin Donnelly
www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg
www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg
www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD
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