On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:23:42PM +0700, Michel Salim wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:41:19 -0400, Tim Daly <daly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anybody see that Microsoft and Apple are being sued for network updates? > > How does this affect yum? > > That's news to my ears; where did you hear this from? Considering Red > Hat's yum repositories contain no patent-infringing material I would > think they'd be fine, in any case. Well, that's not the way the world works, unfortunately :-(. This issue has nothing to do with the software being upgraded, but about the tool or method to upgrade software with (which is most likely a crazy patent about a trivial method, but we have to deal with evil guys in this world :-( ). -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
