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

Robert Schwebel (robert@schwebel.de)
Sat, 25 May 2002 11:05:42 +0200

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:27:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Whatever non-RT tools used to visualize the RT data equally clearly
> aren't covered by _that_ particular patent, so I think the whole thing is
> a complete and utter red herring.

Unfortunately, it is not only visualisation programs we are talking about,
but also fast data processing algorithms, which are bread and butter of the
users of realtime controllers. See my other post for an example.

Robert

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