On 20050525T223512+0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > Pasi Savolainen <psavo@iki.fi> writes: > > This may be of interest: > > http://press.nokia.com/PR/200505/995845_5.html > > Indeed. Even though it doesn't contain an official position, it not only > confirms Nokia's software patent friendly inofficial position, but it > also makes it clear that Nokia believes to hold patents pertaining to the > Linux kernel. It does make it clewar that Nokia believes to hold patents pertaining to the Linux kernel, but it does NOT confirm a patent-friendly inofficial position. After all, the crucial point on the latter is whether Nokia thinks patents are good or bad public policy; that statement does not establish anything about that, it just confirms that Nokia considers it to be in its best interests to hold patents in the *current* legislative situation. I talked to a Nokia researcher a few months ago, and he denied having any knowledge of an official or inofficial position for software patents; in fact, he indicated that a public policy of software patents is considered bad for business inside Nokia, as far as he knew. However, he made it clear that Nokia needs to hold software patents as long as anybody can hold them. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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