From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nem6j-00074j-7I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:10:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C03C2E117E for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.birdnet.se (foo.birdnet.se [213.88.146.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53398E0F0F for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22988 invoked by uid 501); 9 Feb 2010 08:41:31 -0000 Message-ID: <20100209084131.22987.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:41:31 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] OT: ? Embedded Patent Fraud Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org References: <4B6AD226.5090304@tampabay.rr.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B6AD226.5090304@tampabay.rr.com> X-Archives-Salt: 58971b40-3075-44d6-b010-3c37a653d7d2 X-Archives-Hash: 11d27253084dcfb341291ac49ff52d3a wireless wrote: > This patent looks like the poster child for embedded system, > that should not have been issued. Pretty much, it looks like. It covers any CPU+FPGA system where the FPGA is used for any of signal I/O, co-processing, HID, graphics, signal processing, communications and battery charging. :) I'm sorry, but I find it too hilarious that "a system with an FPGA" can be patented. It's a little bit like patenting the patent system.. ;) > Hopefully Europeans are not this stupid to allow this sort of > patent-garbage to even be filled, let alone enforced. I wouldn't bet on it.. //Peter