Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 24 May 2002 18:53:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Like it or not patents owned and controlled by the free software community
> are a neccessary thing in the short term. Yes software patents need reform,
> and their addition to patent law avoiding in most of the world. Code is
> speech, imagine being able to patent a book plot, or suing George Bush
> because you had a patent on pro war rhetoric ?

*LOTS* of prior art on that one.

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