Keith Bachman wrote: > I'd like to hear what these 228 (or more) patents are, so that we > could work to resolve them...I mean, if they've been counted, then > someone should look at them and see how applicable they are (maybe > some are legitimate, and some were questionable, and it's not as bad > as they make it out to be) This link below states (referring to Ballmers assertion): "He also miscontrues the point of the OSRM study, which found that Linux potentially (not definitely) infringes 283 un-tested patents, while not infringing a single court-validated patent. The point of the study was actually to eliminate the FUD about Linux' alleged legal problems by attaching a quantifiable measure vs. the speculation. And the number we found, to anyone familiar with this issue, is so average as to be boring; almost any piece of software potentially infringes at least that many patents." http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004111901326NWLL _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list