On Saturday 01 March 2003 20:54, James Mohr wrote:
IMHO, if there is any validity to Caldera's claims, I see the only way for it to work is on the basis of patents and not copyright. Since Linux source problably does not contain anything from the original AT&T source, I doubt that there is an issue of copyright, although the Boies gang might be able to twist things enough that something in the Linux source infringes on AT&T patents. However, IFAIK patents are only protected for 17 (?) years and is not simply renewed when the rights changes has. jimmo
Ar you sure it is AT&T? I would have said it is Lucent, but I don't know if that is correct or not. It depends who has the patent after the split-up between those two. -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado