What if MS descides to patent their drivers-api so that one can't create anything that can use drivers written for Windows/their api. Then the whole idea about driver compability is down the drain, right? Just thought of this as an extension to the FAT patent-problem.
/ Jens
-----Original Message----- From: ros-general-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Vizzini Sent: den 5 december 2003 18:11 To: ros-general@reactos.com Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:03, Casper Hornstrup wrote:
I had a discussion with a patent lawyer who confirmed that anyone who makes, sells, offers to sell, or ***uses*** a patented invention (device, process, etc) is infringing on that patent.
End users can and do get sued, and developers can get sued too. You can find examples of end-users getting sued if you search around a bit.
We need to formulate a policy as it relates to IP, probably pretty quickly.
-Vizzini
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