Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux Sampler

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 01:25:42 EET

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Anyone intersted in further study could easily discover the U.S.
> patent numbers that were originally licensed to NemeSys. (Not Tascam!)
> If someone cannot do that for themselves then they probably could
> figure out someone who does know the numbers and ask so they could
> read the patents for themselves.
>
> Please note that while I am greatly disappointed that all of this has
> happened I still thinkLS is a really great piece of work and I, for
> one, still have great respect for all the folks that have done this
> work.

If the issue really is a patent dispute involving a patent that is 1) a
software patent and 2) obvious and therefore invalid, wouldn't this be
the first case where a corporation went after a free software project
for software patent infringement? And if this were the case shouldn't
there be a huge uproar going on?

Lee
Received on Fri Dec 9 08:15:09 2005

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