From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:28:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105309703.8365.25.camel@gimli.at.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501091059.04839.norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:59 +0100, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:
> On Saturday 08 January 2005 21:47, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:09:29PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:14:34PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[...]
> > > > Being open doesn't mean you aren't violating some stupid patent.
> > >
> > > Only in some countries. We can ignore those countries.
Hardly. (Almost) all of the western world is included (and probably most
of the rest).
> > Patents on hardware are legal and common in _many_ countries including
> > all countries in the EU.
In general yes.
> There are several independent designs in the market for these chipsets, but as
> far as I know the patents only govern the complete chipset, thus the contents
> of the chipset is not to be worried about.
> The other patent issue is the 802.11 standard itself. Is that patent free?
> (IE: That would be a stupid patent)
You know how many "stupid" patents out there?
An yes, they are granted and they (actually their holders) wait until
they are legal.
Bernd
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050105192447.GJ5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu>
2005-01-05 20:05 ` Open hardware wireless cards Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-05 20:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-01-05 20:48 ` linux-os
2005-01-05 21:35 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-01-05 21:09 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-01-08 20:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-09 9:59 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-09 22:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2005-01-09 23:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 20:17 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-01-05 20:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 8:02 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 17:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 17:37 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 17:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 17:42 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 19:06 ` Norbert van Nobelen
[not found] ` <1105044024.15770.7.camel@krustophenia.net>
2005-01-06 20:51 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-06 20:25 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-07 10:37 ` Aaron Lehmann
2005-01-06 19:11 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-01-06 19:32 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 21:00 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-01-06 21:39 ` Jim Nelson
2005-01-06 21:42 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-08 11:58 ` Paul Jakma
2005-01-06 21:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 20:22 ` [Prism54-users] " Steve Hill
2005-01-05 20:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-05 22:19 ` christos gentsis
2005-04-19 19:07 ` Karel Kulhavy
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