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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
28 May 2002 00:26:12 +0100


On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 22:52, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> If Red Hat is able to leave the licensing issues for their
> Linux patents unresolved and they still manage to be regarded as being

Nobody intends to leave in unresolved. It's simply a matter of coming up
on the Friday of a long weekend when most folk are not back until
Tuesday. I think everything will have been appropriately addressed
including the questions of the 'what if IBM/AOL/Sony/.. buy Red Hat' [1]
kind

Alan
[1] Pick a bogus rumour, any rumour...

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