Joe Buck wrote: >> IBM holds *so* many software patents (all invalid on their >> faces, of course) that if it decided to enforce them, and was >> successful, most of Debian would likely have to be removed. > > Many of IBM's patents are clearly valid according to US law;
OK, that may be true -- I should have said "many are invalid on their faces". Look at the ones they brought out and later dropped in the SCO case; at least one of them is not an invention in any sense of the word, being mind-bogglingly obvious. > they are the result of real cutting-edge research and are > genuine inventions. So, as long as software patents are legal, > those patents are valid. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
