[linux-audio-dev] RE: [linux-audio-user] Open letter to Steve Ballmer

[Vince Werber]

And it is totally possible for two different developers to come up with the 
same solutions for the same problems.  I'm no friend of Micro(semi)soft and 
Do know full well about their fine art of... errr borrowing code... It is 
well documented in history...

As for getting them to make code public...  yeah right... lotsa luck..
vince


On Saturday 03 March 2007 15:14, Jan Depner wrote:
> I normally wouldn't reply but this is way off.  If there is prior art
> then the patent can be thrown out.  This is what PubPat is doing and
> what was attempted with the Microsoft FAT patent (and succeeded in
> Germany).
>
> If Microsoft took out a patent on something that was implemented
> previously in ALSA code but they did not steal the code from ALSA they
> are not required to GPL anything.  GPL is a license based on copyright.
> As long as they don't copy the code they're not breaking any laws and,
> unless someone can prove that they copied the code, they ar enot
> required to reveal it.
>
> Jan
>