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 1Nd2MH-0007am-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:07:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C8FCE0D48 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B8BE0AE1 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:44:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=cUMJ3tY2AAAA:8 a=YsZaJ0rEngbHiypgn3EA:9 a=wFSRxqXhJyTaOekS9EwA:7 a=F38WdKau5x9gu8bfdvNk1JXr5sMA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 24.73.161.102 Received: from [24.73.161.102] ([24.73.161.102:57333] helo=[192.168.2.37]) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id DA/7F-13539-B5FCA6B4; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:44:59 +0000 Message-ID: <4B6AD226.5090304@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:56:54 -0500 From: wireless User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090930 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-embedded] OT: ? Embedded Patent Fraud Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1302b0a5-4408-4d35-8006-28a8ab194a02 X-Archives-Hash: 64aa61646801a1a5d3ed545ff3e6e9d1 Hello, It's not often that I would interject a subject like this into a Gentoo discuss. However, from my reading of this patent, the awardee may be able to cause significant grief to anyone that use a uP, FPGA, or such with at CPU/GPU. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F7607005 Hopefully, some of you will read about this patent and conclude that this no way affects any embedded linux system or any form of programmable embedded linux device, particularly any where reconfigurable or programmable hardware is contained therein.... This patent looks like the poster child for embedded system, that should not have been issued. Hopefully Europeans are not this stupid to allow this sort of patent-garbage to even be filled, let alone enforced. I see little in the way of original thought or work as every claim made by the filers has existed before, from my experiences. The "moron" that reviewed this: "Primary Examiner: Connolly; Mark " must be clueless about embedded systems, imho. your thoughts? James