I thought there was something about the right to make other systems interoperable that would not cause an infringement? Like putting Appletalk protocol in Linux. If the original company doesn't create a tool to allow you to tranfer information in/out using your existing systems, then of course you want to make your own.

But what do I know, I'm barely awake.

Brian Kelsay

-----Original Message----- From: Jon Pruente Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:37 PM

On 5/15/07, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

In all fairness, not all patents can be coded around of.

True, and I'll venture a guess that most of the patents involved would tie into NTFS support and/or Samba, or even Mono. If that's true, simple removing those packages from a distro might free up a lot of threats.

Jon.