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On The Docket

Posted by dave on · 4 comments
Linux Magazine; By Nicholas Wells 		Mail this story
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It's a coincidence that last month's "On the Docket" discussed the dangers of software patents just as a troubling headline appeared: according to an exhaustive study by the Public Patent Foundation (http://www.pubpat.org), the Linux kernel infringes 283 patents. Although that news seems dire, having this information in hand is a good thing for at least two reasons.

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Comments (4)

incinerator ·
This article was written and published in October 2004. I can even remember something in the line getting mentioned on groklaw at that time. This is not news anymore. Imho additions should be a wee bit more up to date.
dave ·
Linux Magazine is on a lag. They publish their print version first, and then several months later they release the content to their website.

Whenever they do that, I post the flurry all at once, usually late at night. That was the case here.

Dave
PaulFerris ·
Dammit Dave, you're a Doctor not an Editor!

--FeriCyde
incinerator ·
I posted an opinion about this in the LXer meta forum. I know that there is 3 months lag between the printed paper copy and the publication of its articles on-line and free of charge.

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