Re: nomarch-1.2 - Problems with RLE patent 4,586,027

[Jim Lynch <jwl@debian.org>]

On Tue, 21 May 2002 04:48:47 -0700
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:11:24AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> These patents are patently ridiculous and every single person on this
> list with half a brain knows it.  Now if you will all kindly develop
> the other half of your brain and make the logical connection that
> these things are a complete non-threat, we can all get back to making
> Debian a good operating system.  Or we can continue jumping at shadows
> until someone gives us a patent number which makes apt a patent
> violation (it exists)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., - Aug. 29, 2001 - Marimba, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRBA), a
leading provider of systems management solutions built for e-business,
today announced that it has been awarded a patent from the United States
Patent and Trademark Office for elements of the technology utilized
within its software.  The patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,272,536, titled
"System and Method for the Distribution of Code and Data," relates in
part to the automatic distribution and updating of software applications
and data over a network.

> or the same for the kernel itself (also likely to be an easy search..)

What is the kernel patent situation?

> -- 
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net>       Now I'll take over the
> world

-Jim


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