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Hello,

> Oh yes, and we should never assume that something will be rejected as
> prior art until a court decided so, there have been several patent
> lawsuits already that failed even though to one of us the patent claim
> would have been pretty obviously subject to prior art.

Ok, that's true.

> Also, a counter-claim for prior art is not gratis, so it's an open
> question who would pay for all those lawsuits.

Also true. But this specific patent would affect enough big firms to
(likely) invalidate the patent. ( provided it is what we think it is,
I'm far from being a patent lawyer )

> Anyway, even though this does affect NetBSD code, people might not be
> happy with having us discuss it on tech-kern, so I wonder whether we
> should open up a separate mailing list for patent issues or something
> like that concerning NetBSD.

I guess some admin will do this if it annoys enough people ;)
( but you're right, it's not quite appropriate for tech-kern, especially
not for tech-x11 )=20

have fun
Michael

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