Although the way I understand, what Linus meant is that you should not waste time studying patents or doing research to see if a patent exist for everything u plan to implement.
The reason for this is that even though there is millions and millions of patents, not that many are actually enforced by the company holding them(they merely took em to ensure no one would enforce the patents on them), and you can thus use the technology without having to pay anything or whatnot.
On the other end, if you know of the patent and then without asking permission start using it, you can be held liable of willingly infringing it, which could get you sued. If you didn't know about the patent, all the holder can do is ask you to stop using the technology.
That's what Linus is saying, just ignore the patents, and if someone asks us to remove a technology from our software, we'll remove it. So he does not intend to violate any IP, since he plans to stop using the technology as soon as he is asked for.
And before someone tells me it's the same and this is a "if you don't get caught, it's right" way of thinking, well I'd like to see anybody trying to see if a technology is patented every time they want to use it... You'll get totally mad within 2 days, as there are so many patents, and most unclearly described, that you just can't sort it out. And asking a lawyer to do it for you would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.
The health hazard associated with asbestos is respiratory, since asbestos is a fibre mineral, it gets all stuck in ur lungs, giving asthma or worse to people exposed to it.
I agree with you on the fact that everything seems to be said carcinogen this day, but you can probably bet that toner ink has one, if not many, health hazards associated with it.
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Raid could too... Nothing in raid says that the disks have to be in the same computer.
Although the way I understand, what Linus meant is that you should not waste time studying patents or doing research to see if a patent exist for everything u plan to implement. The reason for this is that even though there is millions and millions of patents, not that many are actually enforced by the company holding them(they merely took em to ensure no one would enforce the patents on them), and you can thus use the technology without having to pay anything or whatnot. On the other end, if you know of the patent and then without asking permission start using it, you can be held liable of willingly infringing it, which could get you sued. If you didn't know about the patent, all the holder can do is ask you to stop using the technology. That's what Linus is saying, just ignore the patents, and if someone asks us to remove a technology from our software, we'll remove it. So he does not intend to violate any IP, since he plans to stop using the technology as soon as he is asked for. And before someone tells me it's the same and this is a "if you don't get caught, it's right" way of thinking, well I'd like to see anybody trying to see if a technology is patented every time they want to use it... You'll get totally mad within 2 days, as there are so many patents, and most unclearly described, that you just can't sort it out. And asking a lawyer to do it for you would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.
The health hazard associated with asbestos is respiratory, since asbestos is a fibre mineral, it gets all stuck in ur lungs, giving asthma or worse to people exposed to it. I agree with you on the fact that everything seems to be said carcinogen this day, but you can probably bet that toner ink has one, if not many, health hazards associated with it.
Looks like this troll is catching a lot of fishes... must be the season...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these sort of comments!
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