On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:56:57AM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > But I can accuse you of that whenever I like whether its true or not. So its > > > irrelevant to the discussion, its a totally specious argument. > > > > In any normal case, the accuser has to prove your guilt. > > In a civil dispute its balance of probability > > > But as far as I have understood about patents, you have to prove your > > innocence. > > In the US maybe. In other countries it is more complicated. In particular > in many of these countries you wouldn't contest the patent you would cite > the caselaw on patentability of software and business methods. > > > I don't think it's an irrelevant or totally specious argument. > > For europe I think it is. It doesn't help for the Red Hat case because > as a US company Red Hat is obliged to obey US law. Okay, thanks for your insight :) Rui -- P'tang! Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 22nd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
